Catholic Charities head says U.S. health system causes poverty

I quess when you accept millions of dollars from this Administration you have to go along to get along and make statements like this. No one argues that we need to fix up health-care in this country to aid not only the poor but all of us who will need to rely on some kind of insurance to get us proper medical help in time of need. But government take-over of the system should scare the dickens out of all of us...especially Father Snyder whose organization's adoption program has been shut down in major cities because of unwise decisions he made to cooperate with government....for money! Does he even know what lies within these over 2000 pages of government regulation? I suspect not given his previous track record working with this Administration. How many different ways does he need to be taught before he "gets it"!!

I'm pretty conservative, but there really does have to be some sort of standardized care across the boards, but only at the most basic level. Surely we can put a system in place that helps out with the most basic care--something like all expenses up to the first $5000-$10,000 are paid per person per year. This way, the bulk of prescriptions and doctors' visits are paid for preventive care and minor procedures, broken bones, simple surgeries, etc. Then private health insurance would be necessary for anything over and above the limit. That way, you can avoid a large amount of the problems that are produced by a single-payer system, such as inadequate remuneration for specialists, and families without insurance aren't evicted because of relatively minor expense.

Single Payer National Health Care and nothing less. The rich must pay their fair share of taxes and in many cases, for the multi-millionaires and billionaires that tax rate should be no less than 90%. The crimes the rich have gotten away with on the backs of the working and middle class must not go unpunished and the only fair and equitable way to bring some justice to the war on the middle class by the elite rich is to tax them at 90%. The time has come. They must pay for their crimes they have inflicted on hundreds of millions of people around the world. The current health care system is not a health care system at all. It's a cruel and unacceptable scam that only the wealthy can benefit from and the time for a single payer National Health Care is now!

There are lots of people out there 50 and over with no health care coverage! Too young for medicare. Employers have cut their costs and therefore don't offer coverage to employees. It is almost cost prohibitive if you have to buy it on your own. Priority for all has come down to paying bills and putting food on the table. In the case of the church accident - why isn't the church carrying liability insurance? Why aren't the shepherds tending to their flock? Jesus WOULD minister to the poor and tend his flock. Seems like some in the church have forgetten the true meaning of those words.