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I'll decide. Or let George Bush decide.  He was the original "decider".

Let's cap doctor's pay at $100,000 a year. If that's not enough for them they can leave and get a job on Wall St.  

And, please, don't get hung up on doctor's pay.  Their income is not the problem. The excessive profits of the insurance companies and their investors--- that's the problem. 

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Yes that does include doctors and others that seek to profit excessively from the pain and sickness that occurs.

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Why is it so hard to see the insurance companies as the only problem in this discussion.  We need a single payer system.  Let those that make their living  from the illness of others go out and find a real job.

I am very wary of Obama's health care plan.  If it gets passed then that means all the lobbyist's from the insurance companies have gotten their way. What then?

Private health insurance is dangerous to the health of the nation and all its inhabitants-except for all those employed by the private health insurers.

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Why is it that Single Payer is immediately dismissed as "unworkable"?

I agree with your assessment of Obama. I am trying real hard to like the man and what he is trying to accomplish.  I am having a very hard time with him and his administration's policies.  So, he was going to end the war in Iraq. Big deal.  He has meerly shifted the death and destruction to Afghanistan.  The military/industrial complex wins.  The rest of the world loses.

Now, health care. They will all sell out to some crazy, mixed up plan and we will all lose again.  I wish those that profit from insurance would all disappear and go get a real job.  They are leeches.

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We need to eliminate private insurance companies from our health care system. 

How can we do this?

The United States is currently the only high-income industrialized country in the world that does not have some version of a single payer, public health insurance.

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I have two words for everyone:

Single Payer

Too bad Obama and the other sellout democrats cannot hear that over 70% of us know this is what we want.

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