There are two sources for this article (they are essentially the same thing, but I need to credit both), YouTube and Hot Air. Please follow one of the links and watch the video. The person speaking on the video is Tracy Walsh, a young mother who was diagnosed with breast cancer. She is speaking about her experience in dealing with the cancer while insured by a private insurance agency. Her story reminds us that America currently has a very good system of healthcare. It is illegal to deny care to anyone who shows up at an emergency room with a medical problem. No one in this country is currently being denied healthcare.
There are some things we could fix in the healthcare system without creating more problems than we solve. Think automobile insurance--portability of health insurance across state lines, a risk pool for those with pre-existing conditions, and tort reform (common sense in legal cases involving medical issues). None of these changes would drastically increase the role of government in health insurance--that may be why they are not getting the attention they should be getting. My recommendation in regard to the current healthcare legislation is to scrap the whole thing and start again. There are charges that people will die if we do not pass the current healthcare legislation; I can guarantee that people will die if we do.
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