Why can't US cities/states provide low-cost health coverage?
Cities can finance public options with excise taxes + and include an extremely low individual premium for the insured.
-Maybe citizens of some states like Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and California and Illinois would be kind enough to subsidize insurance for the uninsured American citizens so the "OPPORTUNITY" of very poor people to prosper in America does not depent on the person not getting sick, at which point bankruptcy is unavoidable.
I would of course prefer a nationwide option for healthcare so NOBODY EVER has to file bankruptcy due to cancer or heart surgery, but it’s not happening in this country because people will not even contribute to the health of their own people. Wealth is EVERYTHING in America. Freedom is just a make-believe word because without wealth, you can’t exercise any of it.
Basically not even cancer is more important than wealth, that’s a free country, that’s a democracy, that’s worth dying for.
Americans would come to terms with this if we had a draft and saw we were forced to fight for a system that does not provide health for its own people. To keep us quiet in the meantime, the army has been an all-volunteer army. And those volunteers may be mad, but they are dying in battle before they can speak.
Instead we’ve wasted our volunteers, 3,000 of them, who lost their democratic voice in roadside bombs and grenades 
in a war for oil to enrich the very same people who, unlike the soldiers willing to die for their country, the rich oil contractors would not spare a penny to save their own fellow citizens from bankruptcy due to a brain tumor or cancer,
Unbelievable?
Edit: Historically, health care was NEVER this costly. Now since the pharmaceuticals control everything through paid commercials that say "ASK YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT THIS DRUG"
and then the doctors listen to the pharmacies and then prescribe Bextra and dangerous medicines later pulled off the market, and there are lawsuits, we HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO FIX HEALTHCARE
NOW!
Edit to bwlobo: Companies compete for profit. Since there is nothing profitable about insuring a high-risk low-income citizen, this competition will not make them better off. It will help the people who are already satisfied.
The people suffering are not going to get an opportunity no matter how much competiton there is. You don’t make a business out of people’s health or else your reward low-risk patience and punish high-risk patience, it’s not a game nor should it be
*patients*
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bwlobo
26 Oct 2009
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Eric, you probably also think it’s the insurance company’s fault that our health care insurance is so high…
You want to punish insurance companies? Make them compete.
As Adam Smith observed, whenever two businessmen meet, "the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." That’s why we need a third, fourth and 45th competing insurance company that will undercut them by offering better service at a lower price.