Where do you stand on the health care debate?

Single payer. As has been made blatantly obvious in recent years with Enron, the oil price manipulation up to $150 per barrel by Goldman Sachs and then the banking collapse that has thrust the global economy to the brink of catastrophe, capitalism isn't about regulation. It is about removing all regulation that gets in the way of the profit pursuits of a parasitic wealthy-elite minority. ---------------- This Isn’t Reform, It’s Robbery By Chris Hedges Percentage change since 2002 in average premiums paid to large US health-insurance companies: +87% Percentage change in the profits of the top ten insurance companies: +428% Chances that an American bankrupted by medical bills has health insurance: 7 in 10 —Harper’s Index, September 2009 August 24, 2009 "TruthDig.com" -- Capitalists, as my friend Father Michael Doyle says, should never be allowed near a health care system. They hold sick children hostage as they force parents to bankrupt themselves in the desperate scramble to pay for medical care. The sick do not have a choice. Medical care is not a consumable good. We can choose to buy a used car or a new car, shop at a boutique or a thrift store, but there is no choice between illness and health. And any debate about health care must acknowledge that the for-profit health care industry is the problem and must be destroyed. This is an industry that hires doctors and analysts to deny care to patients in order to increase profits. It is an industry that causes half of all bankruptcies. And the 20,000 Americans who died last year because they did not receive adequate care condemn these corporations as complicit in murder. The current health care debate in Congress has nothing to do with death panels or public options or socialized medicine. The real debate, the only one that counts, is how much money our blood-sucking insurance, pharmaceutical and for-profit health services are going to be able to siphon off from new health care legislation. The proposed plans rattling around Congress all ensure that the profits for these corporations will increase and the misery for ordinary Americans will be compounded. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23356.htm

2. Don't you understand that after his plan is made law there is no "until something better comes along"? You are giving the Government control over our lives from cradle to grave.

I'm in favor of option number 2. Clearly there needs to be something done about how health care is handled in our country. I don't think we're any worse off than other first world countries (in some ways better off), but that doesn't mean there aren't some very real problems.

I am for health care reform. After reading the Congressional Budget Office report on the public option I am for the public option.

A hybrid between 2 and C I think we can get 2 passed and then work on some form of C. This is going to be a two part program.

Welcome to partisan politics. I like your idea, though. I don't really have a platform, but your idea sounds level-headed.

i get health care for free through medicaid because i choose not to have a job and instead pop out children and watch maury all day. so i like things just the way they are.

I support the public insurance option it is about time the USA catches up with the rest of the world on this issue

AFTER 8 years of GOP CORP RAPING ENRON EXXON banks & WALLSTREET..... 46 million unemployed joboutsourced AMERICANS NEED HEALTH CARE..............gop clowns..... CANADIAN CARE IS JUST FINE