With health care, the best thing to do is to find out why it is expensive, and fix that, rather then putting a government run bandaid on it. My copy of the Constitution doesn’t include things liek government being in charge of our whole lives.

If you’ll notice in my response to Ryan, I called him a spammer. He’s one of those people who unfortunately does not care to stick around long enough to learn a thing or two. I don’t know, but he may be a nice guy in any other ways. It’s too bad that Satan has a hold of him now. Hatred for one’s own country or one’s leaders will eat at you unless you do something positive to change it or protect it. I thank God for both Teach and you…and the ones who came before us, and the ones who still out there, and the ones whom shall no doubt come after us. May God protect them all.

As far as a solution, I have one. Get the government out of it. If the gov’t is out of it, there are less files and forms that need to be filled out hence less trees cut down. That’s’ down the middle, eh? lol

Make malpractice suits ONLY applicable to those doctors who are KNOWINGLY neglectful, purposely irrisponsible, and malicious, all of which is for the motive of monetary gain without regard to the patient. It must contain all three of these to have standing. Cost of malpractice insurance will fall immensely!

Give immunity to all doctors who make house calls or perform medical services to a stranger who has fallen ill outside of his office. That means that when anyone yells out, “Is there a Doctor in the house?”, they will not be afraid to answer, “Yes”.

How about those? I am flexible. Now about the money we pay in taxes for the VA…It is the Soldier, not the journalist, who gives us freedom of the press, … I would rather pay for the rest of my life for these protectors of freedom and liberty. We, at least, owe them that much. Wouldn’t ya say?

Rosemary, Darth mentioned John first (see the first comment on this post).

Regarding healthcare, it is definitely a problem in this country. We pay too much for it and there are many people who do not have access. In a way, we are already paying for those who do not have health insurance because the government picks up the tab for emergency room visits of those who cannot pay. And when it gets to that point it’s either too late or very costly. On the other hand, I’m not convinced the government can fix this and I’m incredibly weary of another large entitlement program that we cannot pay for. There has to be some middle ground where we can all agree that making affordable healthcare available to those who want it, while maintaining high standards and choices to those who can afford it, makes good sense. This may drive down the costs to the point where we can actually pay for it without bankrupting the government or mortgaging our children’s future.

As for you, John Ryan, before you go after Darth about anything he says, would you please change your tone of voice? Darth is a very thoughtful, caring, thought-provoking person whom I happen to appreciate. He will not fight with the bottom of the barrel spammers, but I am asking you nicely…STOP IT.

I could take you down with facts that would blow your mind, but I don’t want to hurt you. Oh, that wasn’t nice? How does it feel?

Rosemary, yeah, I have tried some of that. It is barely bothersome at all, thankfully. They are mostly worried that it crops up and is realy my tonsils. Being allergy season doesn’t help