The Thousand dollar pill.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

I don't know of a full-fledged idealized solves-all-problems solution either. Take a lot of study, gathering data on others' experience, digging into the details and functioning and political/cultural variables of France, Germany, Britain, Sweden, and everywhere else. And while a worthwhile study I'm sure, we are probably not going to have an emperor any time soon who can impose a top to bottom redo on the health care system here.

As for funding, while I'm not sure health care reform should be held hostage to major scalebacks in funding for the military-industrial complex, there certainly is a lot of opportunity to redirect resources there.

I would suggest we start with the 11 active carrier groups we don't need. How's about 2...one for each coastline? (Which we probably don't need either.)

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Maybe we should just ponder that bare outlines of where we'd like to go?

That's easy.

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Do we basically want everyone here to get health care?

Yes.

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Do we want a system in which hospitals can and do turn some people away?

No.

That's it. Healthcare in a nutshell.