[Jeff]

Mike & Ant, just want to ask you a REAL question. I know you all always state socialism. But whats your views on health care? I feel its broken to some extent. Its costing more & more every year, less and less companies are offering it to workers even if they pay into it, unlike in the past where many companies have offered it, there are more & more people that dont have health care. The more we privatize it the more expensive it seems to get

How can it be fixed?

I know many say if you cant afford it oh well. well we, this country isn't going to tell millions of people screw you you cant have health care if you can't afford it, so what happens they go to hospitals which cost more and they get it free to them, but it raises all our rates and makes it more difficult for the average person or company to carry health care. what can be done

I know some of it is frivolous lawsuits, but many of these lawsuits aren't frivolous. There are many that should be compensated if they are damaged, killed by a bad doctor or mistake. There are hack doctors just like there are hack pressure washers.

All the cost of health care isn't the fault of lawyers either. I get Nexum, its a drug that has been on the market for years, I am sure the research & development of it has been paid for for some years now but if I had to buy it with out insurance it would cost me $364 a month for 60 pills, I also take Lipitor and that without insurance would cost almost $200 a month and I just started taking another medicine that would cost just over $400 a month, I just checked into this because I had to buy some because I forgot my medicine when I went on a little vacations and the pharmacist told me the prices. I ended up just buying a few pill till I got back home

Theres over $950 each month I would have to pay and there's many that have meds that cost more than that. How can people afford it? I need these medicines if I dont have them, I could have more health issues that would require even more expensive treatments later or it could contribute to me dieing earlier. No Nexum I could get cancer quicker cancer treatment.

If it was just a couple million people without health care I would say we can absorb it, but there is what 40, 45, 47 million people now without health care and at least the bottom 50% of people in this country could never afford full premiums that would be charged to have health care.

Lots of health care cost are because heath care companies charge American more than other countries, so we are actually paying for other countries to have lower or no cost health care to some degree

We cant just let 47 miilion people, then 50 million , then 71 million people have NO health care, it ends up costing more & more that way. Or we are paying for all the illegals to have free heath care and please just dont blame the democrats for letting all the illegals in, Prez Bush himself wants open borders so its a dem & republican thing

I just dont know what to do, how do you solve it?

Please dont say oh well screw them or tell to get a higher paying job, there will always be poverty, a lower class, middle class & upper class. If we don't have a strong health care plan and coverage soon enough only the upper class will have heath insurance. And I don't feel bad for the health care industry or insurance companies they always make very good profits

How can it be fixed???? Are we not our brothers keeper.