Then your not listening. Obamas not talking about healing. He’s talking about managing health care. As he told the daughter of an elderly women that needed a pacemaker, “Maybe you’re better off not having the surgery, but taking painkillers.“ Implying that her mother is dead weight, and she dragging us down. And for bonus points, it will keep the social security payments down.

Nutrition is a business.

Dentistry is a business.

Vitamins are a business.

And right after we start giving away FREE health care whats next? Free Dental? Free health supplements? Free Vitamins? How about free Glasses and free braces and free pearly white capped teeth?

Its amazing how people think they are OWED. Our generation is a generation of YOU OWE ME> We dont seem to want to work for anything. YOU OWE US.

Sad. Life is a business. Your parents gave you life. What comes next is all business.

I believe President Obama will ensure the integrity of his campaign promise on health care. The people are fed up with the corporate health care business. They’ve had us by the little hairs too long.

We should have health care that’s incentivized to heal people not make profits.

We should be able to keep our health care when we change jobs.

We should be able to move around the country and keep our health care (today it’s restricted to states or regions by design to control your access to health care)

We should be able to shop around for the best program regardless of where we live.

We should be able to obtain health care with pre-existing medical conditions.

We can’t do any of these things today. The system is broken, and the corporate medical industry wants to keep it broken. They like it just the way it is- low risk to them and very profitable. They care more about profit than people. It’s disgusting.

Actually the public support keeps going down the more people learn about what is really in the proposals. People generally supported the idea of expanding coverage to more people, but not at the expense of being forced out of the health plan that they currently have.

On your other point here, it’s certainly true that one has to define the terms of the debate, and what is meant by a ‘good’ healthcare system. But it’s completely false to claim that the US is among the ‘baddest’, by any metric. Overally WHO rankings had the US at #37, and most of the negative factors had to do with cost, not quality. On one metric which is particularly important to American consumers, WHO ranked our system #1- that is, patient responsiveness:

Responsiveness: Responsiveness includes two major components. These are (a) respect for persons (including dignity, confidentiality and autonomy of individuals and families to decide about their own health); and (b) client orientation (including prompt attention, access to social support networks during care, quality of basic amenities and choice of provider).

And there’s the rub. If people believe that this plan could pass and not endanger the positive qualities that we enjoy in our current system, they might cross their fingers on the cost projections and tentatively support it. That’s why Obama keeps telling people over and over that if they like their current plan, they won’t need to change it. However, the text of the bill itself already show that there are going to be a myriad of ways that people will potentially lose their existing coverage or be forced out over time.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32791

“The President and Democrat leaders in Congress must think most Americans are not smart enough to realize the health care reforms they propose are equivalent to the bad loans and false promises that led to the current recession. But, unfortunately for them, many are catching on: 49% now oppose these reforms and only 45% support them, and the number of supporters is falling by the day. All Americans must demand time to read the bill, understand the provisions, and require honest long term accounting for the costs — for the beneficiaries of today, and our children who will be paying for it in the future.