Most people get their insurance through their employer, so they won't have the option of the public option anyway. One of the biggest sources of trouble in the healthcare system is employer-purchased insurance — it cuts the consumer out of decision-making.

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Using government-run health insurance to fix the status quo is like using a brick to improve a window.

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Arthur Brooks, the former university professor and current American Enterprise Institute president,weighs in with why he thinks Americans are so reticent to turn over their health care to the government.

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The Insurance Companies is winning the debate on Health-Care Reform. Every time Democrats strike back on Health-care, the Insurance Companies seem to have the upper hand. They will continue to win if we don't fight back.

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Such a mandate would be challenged in court. Unfortunately, it probably would be sustained, owing to the infinitely elastic interpretation of the Commerce Clause that has governed jurisprudence at least since Wickard v. Filburn.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - House liberals pleaded with President Barack Obama on Friday to push for creation of a government-run health care program as the Senate's chief negotiator said he won't wait much longer for Republicans to compromise amid dwindling chances for a bipartisan bill

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Canada Has a Great Health Care System. Why Don't We Do What They Have Done?

Here's why"

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Savings, [future Health Czar, Emanuel] writes, will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, "as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others" (Journal of the American M …

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Are Unions Exempt From Government Run Health Care?`

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You've seen the Sprint commercials about getting things done -- freshmen in lockers, stunt grooms and all. This humorous take on government run healthcare might give you a much needed smile in the midst of some very unfunny policy debates.

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Sen. Kent Conrad's (D-N.D.) recent attempt to bridge the partisan divide over health care reform may be the best opportunity Democrats have found yet to win over Republicans, but it remains unclear whether the proposal will catch fire with the majority.

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Well Duh If private insurers are pushed out of the market, the group said, "the corresponding surge in public plan participation would likely lead to an explosion of costs that would need to be absorbed by taxpayers."

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OF THE many possible issues that could snarl health-care reform, one of the biggest is whether the measure should include a government-run health plan to compete with private insurers. The public plan has become an unfortunate litmus test for both sides.

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WASHINGTON -- Government-run health care has been debated in the United States for years and has become a flashpoint during the 2008 presidential race with both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama advocating some type of nationalized plan like in both Europe and Canada.But there's a …

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"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free."

Hillary Clinton says her plan to socialize health care is "the most aggressive plan to lower health-care costs." Barack's plan "emphasizes lowering costs." Neither of these candidates will deliver on their promises. They underestimate the cost of what they are proposing.

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DISGUSTED Andrew Cowper refused to have knee surgery after docs said there could be a dead RAT in the operating theatre. Andrew, 19, walked out after a consultant apologised for the stench of rotting rodent and assured him staff were trying to find the corpse.

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More than 400 Canadians in the full throes of a heart attack or other cardiac emergency have been sent to the United States because no hospital can provide the lifesaving care they require here.

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If you need a good idea of what government-run healthcare would mean to you and your family, look no further than Medicare, or the wrangling taking place in Washington surrounding Medicare funding.

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It was supposed to be a no-lose issue for the Congressional Democrats. Expansion of SCHIP, the State Children's Health Insurance Program, to cover more poor kids, would put them on the side of the angels and, with its flaws masked, throw the Republicans on the defensive. ...

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Florence Nightingale's famous Notes on Nursing, published in 1859, state that "the greater part of nursing consists in cleanliness". In my edition, the foreword points out that much of Miss Nightingale's writing, excellent though it is, is now out of date.

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Well, look no further than the scandalous mess at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Crappy hospitals, endless waits, mountains of paperwork and, at the end of the day, no real accountability from the people who run the joint.

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