If It's Broke, Fix It

Healing the nation's sick health insurance system--the expensive, inequitable, inefficient and altogether infuriating monstrosity that fails to cover 47 million Americans--is a code red emergency. This patient has grown sicker since first lady Hillary Clinton was unable
to convince Congress, and the country, that everyone had to be covered, that the rapacious insurance industry had to be reined in, that basic human decency required government to step ... Full Story »

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Kaizar Campwala
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by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008

Pretty weak, making a series of claims without any evidence to back them up. It does give the reader a good sense of where Hillary's plan fits in to the debate, however.

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Jim Mac Donald
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by Jim Mac Donald - Oct. 1, 2008

Greed is breaking the Medicare system. Greed will break any system that is government driven. Having experienced the UK's "universal" healthcare system, and having friends who need and use the Canadian system, it is pure rationing. Frankly the poorest of the poor in the USA would not tolerate the waiting and inefficiency. There is no simple answer, but the government, with all of its known inefficiency and bureaucracy, is the last entity that should be considered to fix much of anything.

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Lynne Rustad
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by Lynne Rustad - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a decent and somewhat amusing overview of the problems faced in health care reform and public attitudes toward it. Summarizes (fairly I think) some pro's and con's of Clinton's approach and how her proposal is likely to be met by the right and left. Author is honest (a nice thing to see) about her own preference for single-payer coverage (a bias I share).

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