Do you personally realize the implications of unaffordable health care prices for any insurance-based health reform "solution" that charges premiums, user fees or "cost sharing" based on costs that, unsubsidized, are already unaffordable for 70-80% of us?

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	Yes, and that is why I can see that single payer healthcare paid for by taxes, (the moderate solution) or a national health service, (the cheaper solution that saves more money but which socializes medicine) are the ONLY REAL ways we can make QUALITY heal
86%	13 votes
	No, I still think that we can, via a shell game, perhaps called "public option" hide the true costs somehow, (maybe we can make SICK people pay them!) without the HUGE subsidies that would be required to pay the extra costs of huge overhead of our current
0%	0 votes
	I think we can make the insurance companies honest by requiring them to charge EVERYBODY more in a "nondiscriminatory" way so that everybody who still can afford the premiums can buy under-insurance that may possibly cover at least some of their expenses
0%	0 votes
	I want to see affordable health care insurance offered to ME, even though I was offered insurance through my job that I couldn't afford. I know thats against the rules but I promise not to tell anybody even if I get sick and need to make claims. It doesn'
0%	0 votes
	I want to be poor, so I can afford healthcare too. If I am, can I? I promise not to get too good of a job. My kid is going to have to figure out some other way to afford to go to -col..uh- cosmetology school.
13%	2 votes
	What, Me, Worry?
0%	0 votes

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