Comment on: "Health Law to Be Revised by Ending a Program"

See
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/health/policy/15health.html
for original article.

Health care, and health care insurance in the US is a joke, and unfortunately President Obama does not understand (or is not willing to admit) that without mandatory coverage, including a single payer plan (for which those with money could add additional private coverage) is needed to make anything work, including long-term health coverage.

By now the statistics about the fact the the US has the highest per-capita expenditures for health care, which gets it somewhere between rank 30 and 40 in terms go \"health care outcomes\" (depending on which measured you choose) should be well known.

In addition, the much ballyhooed \"free-enterprise\" model for healthcare favored by Republicans (at the behest of the health \"industry\" lobbies - just like when they passed Medicare Part D, the biggest give-away in the history of health care legislation) only allows corporate greed to enrich themselves on the backs of the suffering, ill, and elderly -- just like the recent news stories about the \"scarce drugs\", where our wonderful corporate leaders horde scarce but vital drugs in order to jack up the prices by insane margins, apparently up to 600% and more.

While not perfect, the US could do with some advice from other advanced/industrialized countries, ALL of which have national health care plans, and NONE of which allow the disgrace of some 45 million citizens to go without even minimal health care...