The time is now for Palin

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Yes. On December 3rd I had a heart attack and was taken to the hospital and had by-pass surgery and it was three days later they even came to ask if I had insurance. My wife is from one of those great eutopian countries (the former USSR, the most Eutopian of all!) with FREE health care, said "In Ukraine, you would just die on the street" LOL

America has the best health CARE in the world. It has a terribly screwed system of paying for it which we have brought on ourselves by not taking responsibility and leaving things up to others (insurance companies) to decide.

We need to

1. Allow any insurance company to sell health insurance in any state, I want to see GEICO ads for health insurance.

2. Tort reform to limit frivilous lawsuits

3. Detach health insurance from employment. Require employers to give back the amount paid for premiums to the worker as wages and let them choose their own insurance with the money. THAT is competiton and THAT will reduce prices. The best way to reduce the costs is to get the PEOPLE out there SHOPPING for health insurance and medical services. They will be having clearance sales on medical procedures, they way they offer Tuesday specials for oil changes. Let the FREE market loose and we will have the best, AND the cheapest health care in the world.

we already see this in $4 prescriptions at Walmart. WHERE the FREE market CAN compete...it does. Allow it to compete, allow it to do its job and keeo the bumbling government out of it. Now our healthcare is delayed because spineless Democrats cannot proceed because they just saw one of their collegues get snuffed out in Mass. So because Martha Coakley lost an election, we can all sit around and wait for the Democrats to grow a new set of b@lls. You really want them running your health care?

NO hospital can refuse treatment regardless of insurance status.

I never get sick and I'm forced to have insurance for college, so I never really looked into all of this, just watched M. Moore's "Sicko".

So if you had no insurance you would have been operated on sure, but you then would have been charged for the services had you not had insurance?? What would the cost have been and would it potentially have crippled you financially?