Health care poll

[Sbane]

I can't stand how much of a right wing echo chamber this forum is.  There are no liberals here!

I support a national mandate for states to strive towards universal coverage.  Of course now is not the time for that though.

Single payer health insurance is a common-sense, centrist policy throughout the rest of the industrialized world.

And the cancer rate is 5 times higher to boot.

Source?

http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba649

I saw nothing about the cancer rate being 5 times higher in the rest of the industrialized world.

[Sbane]

On the other hand, I can spot many, many legislative provisions that will cost health-care costs to shoot the moon, the part about no discrimination in plans to people based on "health status" or exclusions based on "pre-existing condition" being the worst offender in my mind. (that I pointed out yesterday)
 
Furthermore, I sincerely doubt that any new proposal could create as much "access" to health care as there is presently, but that statement presumes "access" to health care is a positive thing.  Any greater "access" to health care would inherently create "cost problems" much greater than the present system.

First of all how will the addition of a public option not create more access to health care?

Secondly what do you think people with pre-existing conditions should do? Should they just remain uninsured and then end up in the ER and cost society about $100,000 anyways?