Obama Healthcare is DOA

Obama's Healthcare Plan appears DOA for several reasons: First, it's ridiculously expensive at a time when the country is near-broke. Second, Obama has done a poor job at even explaining what it is. People don't understand. Third, his cost justifications are absurd. He says that he is going to save hundreds of billions of dollars by eliminating "unnecessary tests". How on earth do government burocrats know what "unnecessary tests" are? If doctors prescribe tests, then it is presumed that they are necessary.

Obama should forget about an "insurance" solution and simply focus on providing low cost services for free to the poor: Build free health clinics and free "charity" hospitals. The poor can be taken care of there, but there should be "means testing".

I think that Obama is full of BS when he says that our healthcare system is "broken". It is one of the best in the world, if not THE best. Even many poor people are taken care of via Medicare and Medicaid.

And what about Obama's seeming assumption that the alleged 48 million uninsured are all tragically too poor to pay for health insurance. Is that really the case? How many of the uninsured simply prefer to spend their money on something else? Insurance is an intangible, and a lot of people simply ignore it, until it's too late. Especially if they aren't very bright.

Also,, large numbers of the uninsured are not American citizens, and are not our responsibility. if they want to live and work here, then they should be paying for insurance.

A good solution might be to simply expand the EXISTING public health service, as well as Veteran's medical services. Perhaps the uninsured could get medical care thru Veterans' or an expanded military medical corp.

The army medical corp is very practical. If you are sick, you do not immediately see a doctor. You first see a medic, who is an enlisted man with a few months of training. If the person is indeed sick, they can progress to a nurse, GP or medical specialist, as needed.

There needs to be a realization that you get what you pay for. The government should not be providing the poor with free Rolls Royces. But mass transportation should be available. Free clinics and hospitals would probably involve fairly long waits and might not have the best doctors. There would be much more use made of medics and physicians assistants.