Comments on: Will the government delay comprehensive health reform? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/will-government-delay-comprehensive.html medical blog Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:38:16 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Imee http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/will-government-delay-comprehensive.html/comment-page-1#comment-89710 Imee Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:59:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/will-the-government-delay-comprehensive-health-reform.html#comment-89710 i hope it doesn't get pushed back. after obama's schip signing, i think it's just going to be a wrong move to delay anything else health related. i hope it doesn’t get pushed back. after obama’s schip signing, i think it’s just going to be a wrong move to delay anything else health related.

]]> By: Deron Schriver http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/will-government-delay-comprehensive.html/comment-page-1#comment-89683 Deron Schriver Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/will-the-government-delay-comprehensive-health-reform.html#comment-89683 Health reform doesn't need to cost a dime. It involves each and every one of us taking better care of ourselves. Our healthcare crisis is more of a societal problem than a healthcare problem. If you want to find the guilty parties in our healthcare crisis, look in the mirror before you point the finger at others. <br/><br/>French healthcare doesn't cost less because their system is so much better than ours. It costs less because they are healthier than we are. Why are we looking for a complex answer to a problem that is so simple? Health reform doesn’t need to cost a dime. It involves each and every one of us taking better care of ourselves. Our healthcare crisis is more of a societal problem than a healthcare problem. If you want to find the guilty parties in our healthcare crisis, look in the mirror before you point the finger at others.

French healthcare doesn’t cost less because their system is so much better than ours. It costs less because they are healthier than we are. Why are we looking for a complex answer to a problem that is so simple?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/will-government-delay-comprehensive.html/comment-page-1#comment-89680 Anonymous Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:34:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/will-the-government-delay-comprehensive-health-reform.html#comment-89680 While it is hard to see it this way if you are a physician or if you are sick, they are right to put it lower on the priority list. It really isn't that important.<br/><br/>Whatever is done will also have flaws. Things aren't going to be perfect. Being sick will still suck, and the country will go on no matter what happens. Babies will be born, people will reproduce and die, etc.<br/><br/>A nation needs two things to survive: reproduction and defense. The rest is needed only to the degree that those two require it, otherwise it is dispensible. The country can thrive with no health care system at all or die with the best--in geopolitical terms, it isn't nearly as important as nuclear profiliferation, Islamist aggression, currency stability, freedom, or energy. While it is hard to see it this way if you are a physician or if you are sick, they are right to put it lower on the priority list. It really isn’t that important.

Whatever is done will also have flaws. Things aren’t going to be perfect. Being sick will still suck, and the country will go on no matter what happens. Babies will be born, people will reproduce and die, etc.

A nation needs two things to survive: reproduction and defense. The rest is needed only to the degree that those two require it, otherwise it is dispensible. The country can thrive with no health care system at all or die with the best–in geopolitical terms, it isn’t nearly as important as nuclear profiliferation, Islamist aggression, currency stability, freedom, or energy.

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