What do you guys think about the whole Healthcare debate?

[Polsci]

I believe that both sides of the debate had fair points and both points were lost in the struggle.  We should reform tort laws because lawsuits in this country are ridiculous.  We should also reform our regulations and lower them.  Just to start a single small business in our fine country requires mountains of paperwork and a pretty penny.  Paperwork makes anything more expensive.  Another thing we could do is simply combine Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.  We could also computerize and modernize it to also help reduce costs.  You could also separate Social Security/Health Care from the government so it can stay solvent, similar to how Social Security was intended to stay.  Another thing that could be done is to get rid of Medicare and Medicaid and simply have the government pay for emergency visits of people and then make them pay a slightly higher tax rate.  That is a good first step too, and by getting rid of medicare and medicaid and making it [health care] available to all, it would cause our friends on the right to reconsider their positions.  Unfortunately reforms get in the way of campaign money which is what both parties run on nowadays, so instead we got more regulations and more kickbacks and exemptions for favorites.  The marketplace idea was good, though.