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With the elections just two months away, the issue has shifted on who will be Obama and McCain’s veep and the most fundamental issues are now being set aside.  As a concerned voter, (yes, I will vote on November) I am most yearning to hear their more specific and concrete health care plans.  My basic question is that if the would-be president would let his government handle the health insurance department or will still let private entities to handle this.

If the government  will shoulder this nation’s health care, they will spend approximately 4.4-6.7 trillion dollars every 4 years. Experts say that this is more than what we spend in Iraq for a year.  WEll, if this is the case, I would choose this as the money will be spent to save lives not kill them.

In other countries where the health care is totally funded by the government, they claim that it takes weeks to actually be seen by a doctor and be given medication or be exposed to medical tests.  I daresay it all depends on the management.  If there will be more healthworkers and hospitals available, then there should be no reason why a mere appointment would take 7 days to be made.

Universal health care works very well in most of the developed western world. Your claims about the deficiencies of these systems are unsubstantiated, and not borne out by my own experience of universal health care in both the UK and Australia.

Universal health care does not mean a system controlled by the government, it means a system financed by taxation and universally available.  So, these are my reasons why health care for ALL citizens should be funded by the government.

I hope to hear this from Obama and McCain instead of seeing them trying to play a hide-and-seek game on who their VPs will be.