I've been able to pay off my house recently... so I could say I really don't see why people are having any problem with mortgages or financing... but that would be disingenuous of me because "my" being able to do something has no correlation to any other person's situation.
The fact is if there is a system, like healthcare, that is very necessary but becoming a real serious problem we should try and fix it. The answer surely isn't don't really do anything. Don't regulate it and don't allow people who are injured because of the poor administration of it to have ant recourse.
This unholy forced alliance between insurance companies & the healthcare industry is in some ways a business issue with a "GREED"factor embedded in it much like the housing & financial systems did... AND WE ALL NOW SEE WHERE THAT HAS LED US UNDER BUSH!
However I've said from the start that it may be possible to do something other than a complete nationalized healthcare system... possibly a combination of both a private & government system.
As far as your "fix"... it's not one. Fraud investigations while they should of course be done are costly they often become more of a break even proposition than a real windfall. And the government isn't the problem because this is currently a "PRIVATELY OPERATED FOR PROFIT" business model.
But what is crystal clear is SOMETHING MAJOR has to change and the insurance companies will never do it on their own. I applaud President Obama for trying hard to break the downward cycle the healthcare industry is in and I assume that's why by vast majority both businesses and the healthcare industry itself is promoting CHANGE!
As far as President Obama "flying around". It's a very good thing we have a President who cares and is taking the new ideas directly to the American people. That's who elected him... that's the American way!
