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Message: <blockquote data-quote="n2sooners" data-source="post: 2146151" data-attributes="member: 26539"><p>Diane Feinstein is trying too. Doing the wrong thing is worse than doing nothing at all. There is absolutely nothing wrong with our healthcare system. The problem is with the payment system (insurance) and people's expectations. Until those expectations change nothing will be fixed. We should be insuring our bodies like we insure our vehicles. We don't expect our auto insurance to cover oil changes or new tires, why do we expect insurance to pay for every single doctor visit? There is absolutely no incentive under the current insurance system to shop around, and there is no incentive for doctors to advertise their prices or to compete price wise with other doctors. And until that changes, nothing the government does will help, it can only hurt. And republicans are unlikely to fix it because any time they do try to tackle an impending implosion they are demonized by democrats and their cohorts in the media. Just look at what happens any time they propose fixing social security or medicare or when they tried to avert the housing bubble (not to mention the fact that the republican leadership is just democrat light).</p></blockquote><p></p>