Though I think this topic belongs elsewhere - it is nonetheless important. It is difficult to follow the changes being made, this draft, that draft but I don't like it based on friends and posts in Canada in Great Britain who have some type of nationalized health care system and all complain about it. Basing anything on a similar system will likely result in similar dissatisfaction.
On the other hand, everyone having insurance is a step in the right direction. In GB you can have a supplemental policy that gives more benefits than the state plan and is much less expensive than our policies today. This could be an option is private ins. companies jump on that bandwagon.
The big however, if illegals are excluded, and just for the telling I don't believe anyone in this country illegally should benefit from our hard working dollars, they will still not be refused medical care and emergency rooms will still be overworked, overcrowded and underfunded.
One more thing, for us older folks who remember a time when the system wasn't broken, when both health care and insurance, though expensive, was still affordable - why is this system not being looked at again. HMOs broke this system and it is still fixable - take out managed health care, IMHO. When the insurance companies and not the doctors are the ones making all the money, there is something definitly wrong with that system! A profit, yes, a killing (pun intended), no!
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Dr. B in Bogen, Germany
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