of health care. However, as with so many programs proposed and discussed....what are some of the specifics? Just what does "fixing health care mean? Entail?

Does or will it include:

stopping pharmaceutical companies from hiding behind patents keeping drugs at extreme high prices?

stopping provider institutions and individuals from exploiting the system for maximum personl gain contributing to maximum costs?

grandfathering what coverage YOU have today from Medicare, when bringing all the have nots on board?

all....I mean ALL government employees including congress, senate, et al (.....sorry I could not help myself!!!)?

understandable coverage that has no special coverages for vague differentiation?

drug coverage?

Just to name a few. Without the specifics, congress and Obama will pass another huge program with unspecified content that will benefit only providers and government officials and the usual medical provider special interest groups. There will be no accountability....no measurables.

The program will again get the Obama fast track label and be pushed through the partisan controlled system.

Skeptical? N egative? Absolutely!!!! Appropriately earned by previous actions/non actions by our incompetent lawmakers.

I have said it before and I will say it again....remember no matter what program is proposed for the masses will not be as good as what is available to us (retirees on Medicare) today. No matter what is proposed we will wind up having to offset the difference through private coverages just as we do with supplemental coverages today....except it will be more $$$$.

LAst of all how will it be paid for? And as stated above just how will it affect the economy?

Sorry for asking for specifics....I know it is an age old requirement not subscribed to by lawmakers and partisans!!

btk