The private health industry's time is up

Obama has been supportive of a public option, but how do you solve the healthcare problem when you fail to deal with its root?

Our current private health insurance system is the most costly, wasteful, complicated, and bureaucratic in the world. But in America, the people who have to navigate that maze are the lucky ones. Today, 46 million people have no health insurance and even more are underinsured with high deductibles and co-payments. At a time when 60 million people, including many with insurance, do not have access to a medical home base, more than 18,000 Americans die every ... Full Story »

Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Subjects: U.S., Politics, Health
Topics: Health Care
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Jun 17, 2009 - 6:36 AM PDT
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Jun 17, 2009 - 6:36 AM PDT
Patricia Blochowiak
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by Patricia Blochowiak - Jun. 20, 2009

Discusses both healthcare reform and increasing health coverage. Gives context and background. Well written. Accurately portrays the more-liberal point of view. No discussion of the opposition, which is well-covered in most of the rest of the coverage of the debate about increasing the number of people who must pay for health insurance.

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Jun. 20, 2009

Sanders presents a short argument for publicly funded single payer medicare for all health care. He targets the current status quo system of health care and insurance forced by law to focus on maximizing profits, which implies denying insurance and care to those who need it most.

With corporations owning congress, we may need publicly funded elections before we get decent universal health care.

To me, the evidence is overwhelming that we must end the private insurance company domination of healthcare in our country and move toward a publicly funded, single-payer, ... More »

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Kaizar Campwala
3.2
by Kaizar Campwala - Jun. 17, 2009

This is an attack on the private health insurance industry, but doesn't go into specifics of a solution. Not particular insightful or interesting.

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Glenn LaBauve
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by Glenn LaBauve - Jun. 17, 2009

Senator Sanders has been a voice in the wilderness, maybe, this forum (CSM) will give him the megaphone to let people hear him

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