Blade,
I don't know why you constantly present this as an left or right situation. That's nonsense.
This is currently an Obama made emergency that everyone is trying to jump up and down about, and if you ask me they don't have a clue what they are doing. Now that I see the hospitals, pharma's and everyone else promoting it's only common sense that we're being had.
I really don't give a rat's ass if we have public, private or whatever insurance but I still say we've taken our eye off the ball.
Our goal is provide healthcare, not insurance. Our goal should be to make our healthcare affordable not who's going to pay an unaffordable amount.
Obama has not put one thing on the table to make healthcare affordable yet. He made very clear that medical liability (lawyers) wasn't on the table, why not!!!
Finally to do this at this time is absolutely absurb. Do you know how much money every american citizen and corporation pays in federal income taxes each year? $1,400 billion per year. Do you realize that if our government bonds increase from the artifical 1%-2% today to the normal 6% that our yearly interest obligations will increase over $400 billion dollars per year or 25% our all our tax receipts.
He's playing with fire!!
Lastly, the corporations are for it because they'll get something out of it. If the corporations win, their employees lose.