Hello Ms. Harrop,

You can have Universal care, Low Cost care, and High Quality care; but can only pick two.

If you choose Universal, you are going to need many more doctors. The way we encourage young folks to enter a profession is to make it profitable (i.e., cost more).

If you choose Low Cost, this either involves stiffing care providers, limiting high-tech equipment & leading edge treatments, or rationing care.

If you choose High Quality care, you need high quality providers, latest tech & treatments.

Your best bet is to choose Universal and High Quality, and tax the heck out of folks to pay for it,
but be ready for the backlash.

-- Mike

Clear Vision on Health Care: Article 9/1/09:

A couple of comments in your article caught my attention and I would like to respond. "well-designed health reform", and "more efficient delivery of care". Now how will these be achieved? I have seen no definitive plan/approach or details of how or what will be actually implemented and then there is how to pay for it. Who has read the 1000+ pages of proposed legislation and is there a summary document that we citizens can review? I think we deserve actual answers to all of these questions in order to make intelligent decisions on whether the legislation is good for us or not. I don't think this should be a political issue but all parties working together to come up with a plan that we can understand, chew on, and then determine if we support it or not. Yes, we do need a clear vision of health care. Today, our vision is clouded by lack of information coming from the White House and Congress.

Thank you.

Bob

i see froma, that you have not read the bill. no, there will not be a checks and balances public vs. private insurance, the government through its 9 member board, which by the way, includes a union representative (?), and of course the community organization (acorn), will lay out what benefits will be, or will not be available.
Th figures which are very consistent, say that somewhere between 80 and 130 million will be pushed out of their private plans into a government plan.
Your obviously a lib and therefore your allegience is to big government, and hence, the government plan. I understand. But, you are in the minority. The majority of real American's, have already told you and the rest of your lib friends, that we don't want it!!!!

Ms Harrop; If Obama care is so great, why are Obama, his family, and all the congresspersons exempt???? They should be clamoring for it if it's a good plan.