<p>“It must be a transparent system that will insure that health care dollars go to health care and nothing else”</p>
<p>Exactly, and it shouldn’t be a system that encourages people to ride the gravy train. We have had a lot of that in New York, and it’s coming back.</p>
<p>My personal theory is that Rudy would have made a lousy president, but he was an excellent mayor, and much of his work is coming undone. The whole country needs New York to be fiscally healthy. (Sorry for the hijack rant.)</p>
<p>zoosermom - heard some McCain people on t.v. today discussing the need to overhaul the entire tax system. Made me wonder if McCain himself has some ideas about that. You sure won’t hear anything like that from the dems.</p>
<p>If ANY of the candidates will address the tax system, McCain will! He’s already pledged not to raise taxes (and he KNOWS how to cut spending!). I’ve heard him discussing his ideas for Social Security, Health Care & Medicare. He actually has plans to fix those programs that won’t break the bank.</p>
<p>If you want the best chance of hanging on to more of your hard-earned $$, better vote for McCain!</p>
<p>and poetsheart, McCain has already demonstrated numerous times how he tries to be bipartisan (unlike Obama & Hillary who are way out there in the far left!).</p>
<p>“If you want the best chance of hanging on to more of your hard-earned $$, better vote for McCain!”</p>
<p>BZ, I’m not a McCainiac, but I am a nice republican woman, so McCain will get my vote.</p>
<p>Hey, there was a very amusing column on Slate today about Obama as Bugs Bunny and Clinton as Daffy Duck. No great insight, just fun, if anyone’s interested.</p>
<p>I don’t know, but the single-payor system I am in, with government collecting the funds, and a board of consumers and providers governing the contracting, the covered services, and the payout, does a WONDERFUL job of managing the system. And the proof is that my monthly premiums are two-thirds lower than the competing private insurance plans offering the same covered benefits, with a much larger selection of providers, higher demonstrated customer satisfaction, no churning of clients because there is no incentive to delay or deny needed care. And the single-payor option has now become by far the most common option that consumers select.</p>
<p>Under the CURRENT SYSTEM, the corporate socialists and the private insurers and their lobbyists ride the gravy chain. It’s why they absolutely adore programs like SCHIP. And why they are scared to death of a system where decisions are made by consumers and providers, and where providers compete on the basis of quality. I’m frankly tired of paying for the corporate freeloaders.</p>