Reply #6: Being from the UK, you obviously don't understand our nightmare [View All]

[Vinca]

of a health insurance system. In your system, taxes are assessed in one way or another to pay for your health care. You present a card, get your treatment and go on your merry way. Under the proposed "universal health care" schemes offered by either candidate, the insurance companies are left in the mix. Why does that matter? Because if they were taken out, the profit motive would be removed and the lowered cost of health care would make it possible for every American to get a health access card such as you have and not worry about having to cough up $700+ a month for the privilege of not being excluded from the health insurance system. The plans proposed by both Clinton and Obama are similar to the Massachusetts plan. Before that plan hit day one, the premiums had already doubled and people migrated to adjoining states to avoid being penalized for not being able to afford the plan. We need single payer, universal health care in this country, not a jerry rigged insurance plan. In addition, it would be the Congress that votes for or against any plan, so Clinton and Obama can desire the exact same thing and it might not matter one iota.