The Healthy Americans act is the best plan for healthcare reform

Thank you for your response! I will not burden you with smalltalk and I will instead go straight to the argument. "Your description of the HAA is too sketchy to agree with. Therefore, I disagree." I guess that's fair enough. However, could you please explain what made it "sketchy?" And was it my description of it or Sens. Wyden and Bennett's description that was sketchy? "I have Medicare. It is a government run plan. It works well. It is efficient,; but it certainly is costly." Those claims are all true. However, we're talking 300 million people and up that would be using single payer, or potentially using the public option. You are correct that it is costly. There is no way the government could pay everyone off while still paying the hospitals full price, except sending your taxes through the roof. Right now they can handle the medicare/aid patients, but I don't think it would be so easy with the whole population. "I favor a single payer system like Canada's plan. I adopt the arguments set forth in this article http://www.twincities.com...; Being a former proponent of single payer healthcare, I can respect your ideas and even understand them fairly well (alas, the link doesn't work, but I know the general idea of single payer. You can elaborate in your next argument). Imagining a utopian world with all the bureaucrats being benevolent, single payer, as well as most socialist ideas, would be best and the most fair. It makes sense that the taxes should pay for quality healthcare, but it's no utopia. The sad truth of single payer is that Mr. Bureaucrat can slash quality just as easily as he can say that there is no way to pay for what we have unless taxes are raised dramatically. I really wish it were different. I wish there was no inflation and that humans were perfect. Unfortunately, that is not true. "Since a single payer plan is probably not politically possible now, I favor a public option plan." I don't think single payer is ever politically possible. Anyway, I feel like a public option will eventually become single payer. Once again, if the world was fair, we wouldn't have to worry about that, but the world isn't fair. The government isn't honest. All they have to do is say, "Oh my good golly gosh! Look at how high our rates have to be to be at the same plane as the private companies! Oops! I just "accidentally" raised everyone's taxes so we can have the lowest rate..." There are a few problems there, the first being that, with our current system of about 80% of people not choosing their insurance (1). They have their boss choose. Now, the boss (let's call him Bill), if he's like most bosses, only cares about what saves him the most money. The most common plan for the public option is that it is focused toward emergency and really important care. As such, the quality isn't as good. Bill doesn't care. He only cares that it's way less expensive. With a good bureaucracy, single payer or a public option could work. And we might very well have a good bureaucracy for a while. But, it is so easy to corrupt, I'm not willing to take the chance. Now, I ask you, how would one corrupt the HAA? I don't want the government deciding how I stay healthy, I want to decide how I stay healthy. And I want people who are less fortunate than I to be able to decide how they stay healthy. The best compromise is the HAA. I'm excited to hear what you have to say! 1. Time magazine, last week's, I believe