Quote Originally Posted by MinniesMate View Post
My solution is simple. Increase the staff and facilities of all the county health clinics and provide health care to those not covered by health insurance. This would be way cheaper than reinventing health care in America. This would be more cost affective and, since all parties involved would be local, there would be more accountability for the quality of health care received.
My stance in these various health care threads is in support of a public option alongside the private industry. I did not support the auto bailout and would suggest that if the private companies felt threatened by a public option, they need to evolve and do not have an inherit right to a near-monopoly.

If there is no public option available then I would not support reform. I think that health care should be cheap and affordable for keeping me healthy. There is still enough of a market for higher-class facilities, patient comfort/privacy, and elective procedures for the private companies to make their money. We are still capitalists and people with money will still pay for private insurance.

In the case of the lesser of two evils, I find our government to be much less slimy and shady than insurance companies.