Thread: AMA opposes Obama's Health Care plans...

Originally Posted by Harshaw

And herein is the problem:



Forcing everyone into third-party paying is only going to make this worse.

I am thinking we need a thread to discuss this type thing, but for now...if people are not forced to carry health insurance, then every one is paying for those people without insurance, and we don't gain anything. I think that part is not really part of the solution or problem. I think we do need to look at and implement some form of tort reform(small gains, but gains nonetheless), interstate competition, and a host of other things I don't know about. Let me look at making a new thread in general politics and link to it for handy reference.

Originally Posted by Redress

I am thinking we need a thread to discuss this type thing, but for now...if people are not forced to carry health insurance, then every one is paying for those people without insurance, and we don't gain anything. I think that part is not really part of the solution or problem. I think we do need to look at and implement some form of tort reform(small gains, but gains nonetheless), interstate competition, and a host of other things I don't know about. Let me look at making a new thread in general politics and link to it for handy reference.

I think all those small things would have the same effect as tackling welfare reform (1% of the budget) has on balancing the federal budget, . . . hardly noticeable. Just as you can't tackle the federal budget without tackling the big three, you can't really do any serious medical reform without looking at payers. And medicine has the additional problem of access.

Please see this thread: http://www.debatepolitics.com/genera...are-costs.html (Controlling Health Care Costs)