The U.S. Health Care Debate

[Lemur]

If I can buy as much of something as I can afford, it's not rationing... or am I missing your meaning?

Unless you are independently wealthy and wish to blow your fortune on medical treatment, your healthcare choices are rationed by your insurance company.

According to the CBO, the cost of doing nothing would indeed be cheaper than rushing through the current proposals- not the other way around, as has been suggested.

If we're going to do this, can we at least take some time and try to put a little thought into it?

Sounds good to me. Where are the experts, the visionaries, the eggheads who can really examine this problem? Shouldn't there be blue-ribbon commissions or something, or are we already past that? Rushed, sloppy reform sounds worse than no reform at all.

As broken and untenable as I think our current system is, I despair of the congresscritters improving on it.