It stinks that there was a misdiagnosis originally for your condition. One can only be thankful that they got it right...even if eventually.

The government option will not improve the quality of care, which I've never really heard as motive for the government option. The debate typically centers not on the quality of care in this country, as few people can successfully argue our care is anything but the best in the world. The debate is about who pays.

I have no problem with a government option so long as it is self sustaining, requiring no subsidization, and provides care equivalent to the levels provided now with our current systems. If the populace wants to spend their limited resources with their government as the arbitrator of their care, more power to them. They should have the freedom to make that choice. Absent that, health care is not a federal government concern.

Referring to your above observation that, "the doctors get paid whether or not there diagnosis is correct...." Would that change just because the government is running things? I suspect it would not. In fact, firing a federal employee nearly does take an act of congress!! So what incentive do they have to perform? Not mentioning, who the heck do you recover from when things go bad? You really aren't going to be made whole, typically, by suing the federal government.

Just my thoughts, coming from a guy who thinks our government was originally established to protect me from you, not myself. If I want to make stupid decisions, leave me to make those choices. If the government option takes my limited resources to maintain another government entitlement, my ability to choose has been diminished. That is a moral concern, not a health care question.

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