All I want from Heath care is the same deal the D.C. crowd receives. As a tax paying citizen I deserve no less.

I want a canadian style haelth care system, but how can we afford anything right now?

Don't you think it's strange that every country that does have a nationalized healthcare system doesn't have a large movement that protests for it to be private. In the US it's a different story.

You hit it on the head, it's not free. But experience elsewhere in the world, such as Canada, shows that service will be limited and untimely. It will have to be rationed. Second, there is nothing the government has run that is efficient!

If you follow the Masai it will be free to all the illegals and those that can't or would afford it> But us working class don't qualify>

I'm paying twice for healthcare as it is. Once when I pay my premiums and again when I pay for my deductibles and prescriptions. The only people who don't pay anything are poor people. If healthcare was paid through a national sales tax like in Europe then everyone; rich, immigrants, illegals, even the poor would pay something. Sales taxes would go way up but it would be fair.

Because nationalized health care gives you universal access, while private health care only gives you access, if you have sufficient money. For people like the elderly, the poor and those who cannot work like the disabled or unemployed who have no or less money, they are being excluded, because they do not make any profit for the care companies and private companies are ONLY interested in making profit.
Why should somebody not get any health care or limited health care just because they have not enough money ? In other words: its unfair and a fraud.

Also a lot of research shows that people and countries are happiest, when the gap between rich and poor is minited and access to healthcare is universal, e.g. Sweden, Finland, Germany, etc.
Furthermore people who are treated are better and more efficient workers, which in tur is better for the economy.

Do you remember the last time you had to stand in line to renew your drivers license or to buy tages for your vehicle? How about the last time you had to pay a visit to the local social security office? Great…now drag all those emotions that go along with those experiences and voila!–you have socialized medicine.

Unfortunately, I am sure its inevitable. The American people are convinced that the responsibility of their own healthcare belongs to someone else, either their employer or the government.

I happen to believe that we aren't entitled tp anything. You don't DESERVE quality healthcare if you can't afford it. I know that seems mean, but it's true. I know people will cry, "but what about the children, the elderly and the disabled???"

Why are people having children they can't support? Why haven't the elderly saved and prepared for their own retirement, including their medicines and medical needs? Furthermore, we have medicaid and medicare for the desolate. I'm not willing to pay more so the drunk on the side of the road holding the sign can get his Percocet and Vicodin for free. I would, however, be willing to discuss paying for his vasectomy!