Obama says Single Payer healthcare not on the table..

Lets start with the definition of "Single Payer" option. A single-payer health care system is one in which a single-entity -- the government -- collects almost all of the revenue for and pays almost all of the bills for the health care system. In most single-payer systems only a small percentage of health care expenses are paid for with private funds. Countries that have a single-payer system include Australia, Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom. In other words, you will never have to pay for a medical bill again. (well you pay through your taxes) But you wont have to write a check for your doctor. The govt will charge you in your taxes, collect your money, make interest off your money, and then pay your medical bills. IF they deem that the care you are seeking is affordable/necessary. When the system starts to have financial problems (lets keep in mind that medicare is bankrupt. the trust funds are empty) and it will; they will start cutting healthcare first to the elderly. Then to others based on what THE GOVT decides is necessary and proper.

Here is a great article on single payer healthcare Myths...

http://www.freemarketcure.com/singlepayermyths.php

In the past week the President of the U.S. and his Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius have both publicly denied that the public plan is intended in any way to be a trojan or stalking horse for a single-payer system. The President went so far as to claim that anyone who says this is lying. Well Mr. President, was Russ Feingold lying about this? Was Kathleen Sebelius lying about this? Was Rep. Jan Schakowsky lying about this?

You know, if the stakes weren’t so critically important I’d probably just chalk this up as typical spin-making on the part of politicians. But healthcare represents something like 20% of our economy and we are literally talking about an issue of life and death. For our children and grandchildren…and perhaps more importantly our parents and grandparents. Because it is the elderly that will suffer the most under the rationing that will inevitably result when the financial reckoning comes. I am not willing to just sit back and watch this happen as an innocent bystander. These people are outright lying to us about their real intentions. And I am going to keep calling them on it until the public plan goes down in the defeat it so rightly deserves!