To Bond:
I can already see possible issues with what you have suggested, however if things fell into line perfectly it wouldn't be a bad start. However, nobody is offering such ideas in washington right now, both sides want to spend money in different ways, and both sides ideas will result in increased government control over private healthcare insurance companies, and increased spending.
Instead of shooting down ideas that are really being discussed in washington.. of the ideas that are being discussed which ones would you go for? I'm sure they'd fall within the parameters of my above post.
To Prof:
I'm not sure how it transitioned from being about bureaucracy to being about a raw amount of people who are covered.. But lets go to the poll you posted in the other thread.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/publ..._recent_months
48% of people say their healthcare is good or excelent.. meaning 52% of people wouldn't even call their insurance "good" And lets say 20% of those 52% don't have coverage... that's still pretty pathetic.
I think this classifies as more then a broken arm.