National Health Insurance is always a heated issue. To make a drastic change and re-invent the entire system would be one big project, but we are soon finding out the band aids that have been added one on top of another just don’t seem to be getting the job 
done. There’s always the comparison to how we run health care with other countries, but one item that never seems to be addressed is the amount of resources we have in this country. The city of Pittsburgh has more MRIs than the entire country of Canada, thus we are resource rich, but perhaps need a new focus and plan. We have the resources here in the US, thus a line to line comparison with other countries is difficult. Other countries have created their systems to cover all, but they had to work with limited resources by comparison.
What we need is a way to fund and pay for them, as our current system is having problems with band aids that only offer a portion of the solution. If a few extra pennies sales tax would fund and end what we have now, I don’t think the general public would be too upset, after all what we have now is not getting the job done, insurers pitted against physicians, patient pitted against both, and people losing homes over medical bills. It’s time for a new plan and some new thinking. BD
The idea of national health insurance is an issue that will no doubt be debated at length in this year's presidential and congressional campaigns. Opponents of national health insurance, as proposed in, for example, HR676, Rep. John Conyers' expanded and improved Medicare for all, will call it "socialized medicine," suggesting the government will tell everyone what kind of medical care one can get, and to what doctors and hospitals one will have to go.
National health insurance would improve care -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY
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