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    So what makes us think we can fix health care in this country? Dozens of members have criticized the pending health care bill; practically everyone mentioned one or more legitimate problems.

    No fix? Are we reduced to just improving matters?

    Will improvement take years, perhaps even generations? How can health care be improved? We started out with an unlimited budget and resources,  but we exceeded both in about a week's time.

    Here's another vexing question:  do you think government undertook to run health care or just to improve some urgent and ruinous problems, such as exorbitant health-care expenses?

    Maybe government is the wrong outfit to improve health care.  Who would like to see the banking industry run health care? How about the insurance industry? Auto industry? Pharmaceutical industry? Entertainment industry? Scrap-metal industry? Organized crime?

    Toy industry?

    We've heard a lot of clever talk about problems with health care. Anyone care to propose some practical solutions? How about even one solution?

Government is not the answer, it's the problem.

Unless you are posting statistics, it's pretty much all opinions, isn't it?

BaROCK, promised C-SPAN and sunlight in the healthcare debates, yet here they are behind locked doors.  Why are our elected government officials discussing this behind locked doors?

We all know what is required to fix healthcare.   No one wants true malpractice, or tort reform.  No one wants to address the waste and abuse that goes on in medicare and medicaid.  No one is willing to make the pharmaceuticals ante up.  No Lawyer in D.C. is willing to do that.  No one is willing to address the true problems facing this country.  They just want back room deals and closed doors. 

if salaries begin to be capped and lowered- they will really have a nursing/MD shortage on their hands

Anyone who studied US history knows that at the beginning of our nation the political leaders DID put on their work shoes every day - farmers, silversmiths, merchants..... the founders never envisioned a congress full of professional politicians with very little grounding in the real world! They envisioned real human beings who would serve the country for a couple of years, then return to real life.

We are now governed by a ruling elite as bad as the royalty we fought a revolution to escape!

CaptainEricRN