Originally Posted By: wfaulk
Originally Posted By: Tim
I don't think the government can run a healthcare program on a national scale, the military system gives evidence to that.

That's great.

But totally irrelevant to the health care reform that's been proposed. The government will not have any more control over doctors, hospitals, or any other healthcare providers than they do now. All they're talking about is having a marketplace for group health insurance for people who currently are ineligible for group health insurance, and subsidization of the premiums for those unable to pay for it.

The system will remain effectively the same, except more people will have access to it.

The government doesn't have any control over the doctors, hospitals, or any other healcare providers once you leave base/post. That is the point of my post - it was fine when I was on a military installation, but once I left the medical coverage basically sucked ass. As I understand it, that is exactly what the national healthcare plan is looking at.