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Mandated employer sponsored health-care insurance thru for-profit insurance companies should be opposed. Whether democrats or republicans are pushing it, oppose it. Although maybe the easiest fix for universal coverage, (along with government support of the unemployed), it doesn't solve the profiteering of insurance companies and the disproportionate economic burden placed on small businesses.

So tell me again, why is some policitian in American so very against a full public health care system?

I am from UK and in Sweden its the same, you pay your taxes, gov. looks out for your health, its not always perfect - but I have never been denied healthcare due to "a technicality"

What do the US sifters here think?

(In UK prescription medication is always $13 - regardless of what its for, fr example)

And and great sift netrunner

I don't understand the opposition, either.

I could try to explain it, but frankly, I wouldn't give it a shred of credibility, because I think all the arguments against it are based on ideological dogma. Specifically: "free markets always provide better solutions to problems than government."

I'd agree with that, if it weren't for the "always" bit.

Objective looks around the world show national health care plans can be made to work, and that on balance, most seem to work better than our "let the free market handle it" approach.

Not-so-objective looks like mine, start with me being angry that our culture demands that someone must be making a profit at all times, even when we're talking about dealing with the sick and injured. Further, our culture demands that we say "that's okay" if the companies increase their profits by compromising care.

The best phrase I've heard for describing the state of medical insurance companies in America is "murder by spreadsheet."

Someone had that in mind when they made this commercial.