Actually, Medicare, according to my Ayn Rand/Reagan worshipping brother, is a fairly efficient program. So probably not the best example to use in your anti-goverment run health care argument. Even many conservatives agree with that
Mr. Potter is still operating inside his bubble. Why do we need health insurance at all? OK for major medical/catastrophic, but for every dr visit? Perhaps expenses will fall if in fact the system truly reverts to a doctor and his/her patient. Introducing gov't control isn't the answer. Let's simplify and maybe we can afford a simple visit to the doctor.
Start thinking originally instead of looking at the flip side of the same coin.
It is noteworthy that the first comment in these messages was from "Anonymous", on the attack immediately. This suggests Health "Care" Incorporated already has legions of minions patrolling the web for the purpose of preemptive strikes and damage control.
Counterstrike:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QwX_soZ1GI
From PBS, July 10.
Thanks Mr. Potter for saying what everyone was thinking!
Our government has given license to the insurance companies at large to rape and pilfer the American People for a long time now. The insurance industry is the only business I know of that wants your premiums paid in a timely manner, but is really in the business of screwing people out of the very service they sell them. We need to return to a time when we are sincere in the way we treat and relate to one another. Capitalism has sucked the life out of doing what's right in exchange for profits.
Mr. Potter,
I just watched your interview on Democracy Now and was fascinated. Mr. Potter you may be our single best hope for real healthcare reform.
Please, please, please continue - with haste - your education of the American public as we are truly lost in the woods, and of course, the for-profit insurance companies don’t want us informed.
At the moment I’m very fortunate as I have a good policy through my employer. Unfortunately, as a result, my co-workers tend to fall for the insurance industries scare tactics. What they don’t understand is that it is just a matter of time before our employer will no longer be able to offer us a choice of comprehensive plans or that they might be let go during an economic downturn losing any possibility of affordable coverage. God forbid they have a pre-existing condition.
Even with my “good" plan (which is costly, not portable, and is rationed by the insurance company) I’m only one serious illness away from financial ruin due to denied coverage. Why there even needs to be a debate over our current system that is riddled with health care bankruptcies and the under / uninsured is proof to the strength of healthcare lobbyists.
Why Americans wouldn’t take their chances with a “Washington Bureaucrat” (which we can throw out of office) over a for-profit corporacrat is testament to our collective confusion created by the Healthcare Industrial Complex.
God bless you Mr. Potter.
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