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  Posted By: greatmidwest @ 07/18/2009 3:46:33 PM

  
  The time for healthcare reform in America is now...we can no longer continue to be nation where numbers as high as 50 million Americans lack basic health insurance.
  
  A government option of affordable health insurance , by no means will jeopardize or theaten the health insurance industry. Heck, the federal government already subsidizes the USPS, has that put an end to FedEx, UPS, Airborne , or DHL ??? The answer is no, and health care reform won't put an end to Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Aetna, United Healthcare, or Humana either...
  
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  Posted By: JimF @ 07/18/2009 2:03:24 PM

  Yes, the 45K uninsured are a mix of people. Does that mean that therefore none of them should be insured? How does that dispute anything? Yes, some of them can afford plans -- and if they had plans that would help spread the risk / cost.
  
  As for your contention that people in Europe and Canada have rationed care and die waiting for care, that is questionable. Care varies widely by country (the systems in Norway, England and Canada are all quite different), but the general stats I've seen are that waits are comparable or less than in the U.S. My own experience taking a friend to emergency care...Continue Reading

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  Posted By: unionave @ 07/18/2009 9:34:14 AM

  While congress and the corporate media play their political game of charade and diversion with the lives and well being of Americans many of these Americans are losing health care coverage and will lose their lives while the game goes on .