Ustwo

let's just go on the record. do you think that health care should be affordable?

Define affordable and I'm serious about that.

Do you think that a person who works full time, on average, should be able to see a doctor when they need to?

You are really asking the same question. Saying works full time is being used to invoke sympathy for the low paid worker, but what you are asking is 'if they work full time should they be able to afford health care' and the answer is it depends on how you define affordable.

Do the number of medical related bankrupcies trouble you?

Not any more than the number of credit card related bankruptcies.

Now that being said I think hospitalized health care is often well overpriced, but its due to a lack of market forces being employed. Socialized systems just suck, and while they may sound good to those who are lazy or uneducated, they cost working people more than private insurance in the US (of course its taken out of taxes so you don't write a check) and deliver inferior care. We can have that debate again if you like but its not the point really. I'm all for health savings accounts with pre-tax dollars and the like, but please liberals don't destroy the health care system in this country. Its results that matter not intent.

As a side note, in 2010 the first wave of baby boomers turn 65, 75 million of them or so. Do you think the government can AFFORD to pay for that kind of health care and do you think it will be of high quality?

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