National Healthcare System?

[The Duke]

No to any government interference in health care.

I have to support goverment intervention, the private sector failed.  It is too hard to start up a new insurance company, so we now have a cartel of sorts that can charge whatever it wants.  I'm not mad at them, they just want to get paid and I undestand that, but we all need to recognize that a system that allows them to do this is not a good one.

[The Duke]

What about us folks making 30 - 35k a year. Healthcare costs are killing us. My family pays 50 dollars a week for healthcare on a 80/20 plan with a 350 dollar deductible.

Yet you still have better healthcare than any generation in the history of mankind.  So what's the problem?

The only socialized medicine I support is immunization for 100% of US children.

He'd have better health care than any generation of Americans, but not better than anyone ever.  Japan and Australia tend to have better systems of care.  Some European countries, too, but some in Europe have problems.

[The Duke]

No tax increase is necessary.  If you grow the economy and constrain spending increases in existing departments at or below the rate of inflation, the budget will take care of itself.