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Do me a favor and read up on how fast the standard of living in China is rising.Every year, life expectancy, wages and basic living conditions are rising in China. Overall, their approach, which is to not regulate industries to death, works.

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At least it's a response, unlike what you just provided. Put up or shut up.

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I've had it up to here with this "Medicare pays out so low that private insurers have to make it up..." crap.No doctor is forced to accept Medicare. If it doesn't pay enough, then doctors shouldn't take the patients. Clearly there is SOME VALUE to the consistent payments and large insured pool that Medicare creates that makes it worth accepting to many doctors. Of course we should be capitalizing on that group payment ability when we negotiate Medicare rates.If doctors lose money on Medicare, they can stop accepting it, and only take privately insured patients or patients who can pay out-of-pocket. Not enough privately insured people out there to make your practice worthwhile? Well, you'd best be glad that Medicare is out there to cover the vast majority of Seniors. Before Medicare, 1/2 of all Seniors had no insurance - does that sound better?Besides, I thought the government was spending madly out of control on $200 hammers and all those lovely right-wing talking points. Which is it - is the federal government too CHEAP, or too SPENDY?The bottom line is this: No transaction will occur if it does not benefit both sides - that is simple economic law.

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@kasha - federal requirements would render some "junk" policies un-sellable. That is the basis of the national exchanges in the House Bill, and the federal requirements in the Senate bill. It's not that the same policy will cost more - it's that the lowest-cost policy will have a higher standard.I for one think a set of standards for policy coverage is a good idea - we don't even know how many people have policies that don't actually cover much of anything.

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springer got good ratings too.. and well. any way. Sry but Fox isn't trying to work on their honesty.. Shep Smith has been kinda like this for a while now. As far as I can tell he is the only decent person on that channel. He at the very least thinks for himself instead of reading from a script. The legislation they are trying to get passed now I don't like it. It does have some good points but I'd prefer it to do a lot more and come into effect sooner. Ok now to the whole the federal government should cut budgets and cut taxes. Taxes are as low as they have been in a very very long time. What is all this s**t about omg omg TAXES!!!. We are in agreement on one thing. The budget does need to shrink some on places and grow in others. Like for instance our world dominance needs to shrink a bit. We don't need bases all over hell and half of Georgia. Cut the overseas bases by at least half. Cut military spending and or go through it line by line.. Keep s**t that works and throw out things we don't need. We need to defiantly raise spending on education. One thing about education spending I don't get at all. Sure reward schools that get good scores, but to cut funding at schools that perform poorly is a bad idea. If anything we need to raise their funding and bring in people who can get it turned around. We need an equal education system in this country.. The schools are so far off base with each other its pathetic. One school can afford laptops for every child while another has one old ass computer or 20 in a make shift computer lab for a typing course. I am not saying give every one a laptop.. But every school should at the very least have a decent computer lab. Maybe set some standards schools should meet like so many computers that are within so many years old per the capacity of the school. Like a rich ass school of 500 kids would have half the computers than a typical poor school with 1000. People if we raise our educational standards we can be a great country again. Hell right now its feasibly possible for some one to go to college and pay their way through and get a degree with out hardly learning a damn thing. I'm sorry but I have less respect for some one's abilities that got a degree within the last 10 years or so than some one who got one 40 years or so ago. They had to go through a hell of a lot more and the standards for passing was much higher. Ok kinda off topic but yeah, Shep Smith I have respect for him well more than I do for any one else in fox. Ok for the states doing it and paying for it... Personally this is a kinda a good idea. Their should however be some kind of mandate that the states have to follow a bare minimum and they can offer more if they would choose to. The across state lines bulls**t is just that bulls**t. If that happens All the insurance companies will rush to one state that has the lowest restrictions. That way they can offer an even more inferior service probably consolidate and merge a few times till there is just one or 2 insurance companies period. All in a measure to f**k the consumer a little harder.. Final point.. From just off the top of my head right now.. There are 3 sectors that desperately need to be not for profit. Either by government run or whatever. They just shouldn't be run by companies trying to make a profit.... Health Care.. More on the insurance side. Education other than private schools I am ok with those but as long as there are decent public schools to compete with them, and finally.. Prisons. When you have these sectors for profit. It brings in all kinds of corruption. Companies who run prisons paying off judges to sentence more people to send them there. A system that promotes cops to arrest due to hey if you dont get so many arrests you might not get paid.. I doubt its as serious as that but that is the general idea. The whole oh no we don't have quota's is bs. Go to just about any city their is. Drive about an hour each day the same time of day in generally the same places. I bet you that you will start seeing an increase in cop cars around the end of the month starting around the 20th. If any of you ever got tickets. Think back to what dates you got them on and I'd guess more than 50% landed in the last 5 to 10 days of the month.

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It is not the government's responsibility to provide health care. The government's only legitimate purpose is to protect its citizens against the use of force and fraud, which means we need courts, police, and defense. Everything else should be left up to free, private individuals.

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