Why are we even talking about a public option? How can we put something so important as healthcare into the hands of a government that can't do anything right? I agree that healthcare should be a fundamental right but I simply don't think government control of healthcare is the answer. Any thoughts?

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do we really have the right to the services and products of others merely because we may have a need? i'd agree that equal access to healthcare may be a right, but to say that everyone is legally liable for the health of everyone else is ludicrous. food, clothing and shelter are all necessities of life, so should the people be required by law to provide these things to everyone? there is a difference between moral responsibility and legal responsibility and, though the two may have become inextricably entangled, we should remind ourselves that government regulation is no substitute for a sound ethical base. no life is so precious that others should be forced into servitude for its welfare.

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Are we willing to have people dying because they can't afford to be saved? That's the simple question. I'm pretty conservative but I don't think we have to be a country where people die for lack of medical treatment. That means the cost has to be distributed and I don't have too much trouble with that.

I know it could be done for far less than what is being discussed. Basically we just put a lot more people on medicare. What I don't like is the panting desire of the democrats to create legions of new bureaucracies to run this and regulate that.

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This whole health care power grab is clearly UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

This is a struggle to preserve freedom and liberty.

It is time for the sheeple to wake up, before it is too late



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I just don't think our government is doing much right these days. Why do we want to trust them with something so important? And government is huge! We need to be careful giving the government too much control. Too much control=Too much power. I agree something needs to be done and I'm not naive enough to suggest that a magic bullet exists which will fix healthcare but I don't think more government control is the answer.

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Thank you! This is exactly what I'm trying to say.

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i dont really see why this health care thing is such a big problem, if you have a job and pay taxes then you get health care for you and your family....now if your job wants to provide a better health care option then you can take that....but the main thing is if i am working and i get sick and have to be in the hospital i should be able to go there and get better without them turning me away or me being in debt for 10 years because of it.

Or we can try this....make every health care provider a non-profit organization because lets think about this for a min. if we get sick (which we will) they get paid...hmm it doesnt take a rocket scientist to see that will get taken advantage of. so if all providers are non-profit. where does the money come from? well we raise taxes....OH NO! NOT TAXES! yes taxes but taxes on items we DONT NEED! here in CT we passed a higher tax on cigarettes, something that people enjoy but dont need, how about other things like candy, coffee, porn(i guess) idk if thats the answer but at least im thinking

I see what you're saying but I don't think it's a simple matter of just raising taxes to pay for healthcare. If we keep giving more control to government we may simply wake up one day and say "What happened to our freedom". If we keep giving more responsibility to an incompitent government I think the result is a pretty predictable one.

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people die all the time. right this minute there are people dying all around you of causes that are easily remedied. should you be forced to save them or should that choice be left up to you? the essence of liberty is choice and the price of liberty is the responsibility for that choice. we live in the single most charitable nation on earth and still we feel it necessary to demand further contributions. the answer to our nation's healthcare needs does not lie in governmental intrusions or legislative edicts, but in admitting that those who cannot afford care are in need of charity and encouraging the private sector to provide that support.

we should have known better than to be taken in by the socialistic lies that led us to the corrupt institutions of social security and medicare, but we felt sorry for the aged and allowed ourselves that folly. such programs cannot exist without private enterprise to shore them up and fresh tax revenues to cover their shortfalls. we should never have allowed the welfare state to become a permanent feature of our nation's landscape, but the alternative was to force the indigent into productive lives and that seems too much like slavery for us to stomach. now we have a constantly growing portion of our society completely dependent on the not so tender mercies of the state. we were forewarned of the hazards of an omnipotent federal bureaucracy by this nation's founders, but our hubris led us to believe we could still maintain control over such a monster. so now we find ourselves in danger of being shackled by those we have chosen to represent us.

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