The big thing people are missing on health care reform?

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no profit incentive = another BIG program running at a huge deficit = collapse of the dollar

you can only lose money for so long before investors (mainly china) quit buying our debt and that would cause the bottom to fall out on our currency and the dollar would completely collapse.

it doesnt matter how good your intentions are people are incentivised by profits not good deeds. No matter how bad you would like a large central ran government healthcare program would run at a deficit.
i said this is the problem the solution is less government not more. you guys are point out my point exactly we already have too much government look where it got us.
the public option would lose tax payer money explained above.
 
Nope. The biggest thing people are missing is the cost of doing nothing. They assume it will be flat. False assumption.

According to David Frum (special assistant to president, 2001-2), between 2000 and 2007, the cost of the average insurance policy for a family of four doubled. See http://www.newmajority.com/the-bush-economic-record-blame-healthcare In this question I show a back-of-the envelope estimate of the cost of maintaining the status quo http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AirVVzkXd37O1CEFU8feEo3ty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090916131445AAO0ltM&show=7#profile-info-S4549Rqwaa We can't afford to maintain the status quo, but if we did it would cost $8 to $9 trillion spread over the next 10 years.

The second biggest thing people are missing is they are ignoring the 15 other modern nations that have universal care, longer life expectancies than the US, and costs about half ours. See http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090813150651AAs4yi8 For example, Canadians enjoy 2.3 year longer life expectancy than US citizens (80.3 years vs 78.0; 2007 data) and they pay about $3400 less for the privilege. People don't stop and wonder why that might be.

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@Unicorn: Please share your calculations with us. Mine are linked above.

@Polly: interesting logic. Let's try it the other way: if the bill was so bad, nobody would have to scream and yell and throw teabag parties. They would just vote against it. So the bill must be pretty good. Polly, your logic has "proved" the bill is both wonderful and horrible. Maybe the error is in your logic.
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