I don't see how our system of medicine is sustainable. With more and more people getting older and living longer and having fewer children to support them and with most old people getting medical care for free or highly subsidized by the government and with all poor people also getting free health care paid for by the government and with doctors making two hundred thousand dollars a year and nurses making seventy thousand dollars a year and with countless medical secretaries and other workers making so much money, I don't see how it all could last. I see no other future except for a complete government take over of the entire industry and cutting the pay for doctors and nurses significantly together with massive forced euthanasia.

I had the exact same thought.
I say "had" because i feel the only solution (which few are talking about) is "making" everyone have an insurance policy. It doesn't have to cover everything but you should have some kind of catastrophic coverage at least. If everyone had ins. the rate would go down to a rate that everyone could afford. 2% of one's income is not a ridiculous rate. 
i dont know how you would mandate it w/ o--
well, anyway, i also think that car insurance companies should be made to give people a discount if they dont have an accident in a certain period of time, but many of them don't. They are greedy, which is why we need at least SOME intervention from the govt. If we didn't have some regulations, they would run over us citizens..
i dont like anything being mandated by the govt so i feel uneasy about this solution but i dont see any other way. If a person could go, say, 20 yrs w/o any health issues... no absessed teeth or whatever, then i would say it shouldn't be mandated. And if the costs are too high, it should not be mandated for certain people.. but .. well, whatever..    

Forcing people to pay premiums for their own health insurance is tyrannical; forcing people to pay for others' health care is part of socialism. Both are condemned by the Church.

Forcing people to pay premiums for their own health insurance is tyrannical; forcing people to pay for others' health care is part of socialism. Both are condemned by the Church.

well, if they have no $$ i would agree
Didn't you mean HIGH premiums? (not just premiums, but unaffordable ones??)

not true
we are sick of big govt
I dont think we should have mandatory healthcare that covers everything... justcatastorophies

Graham is absolutely correct. If roads, schools, etc. are mandatory for everyone to pay into to, then you must apply the same to a single payer healthcare system.

well, if they have no $$ i would agree
Didn't you mean HIGH premiums? (not just premiums, but unaffordable ones??)

Today, I don't think there is such a thing anymore. It's become the exorbitant equivalent of storing tons of grain, as condemned in the Bible.

I personally question the concept of insurance in general even within private companies.

Doesn't it discourage charity?

myself
i dont see a lot of charity these days
i mean if people can't even be civil to those in their immediate circuмstances, i fail to see how t hey are being generous and loving and compassionate vis a vis some charitable organization or another

i dont get the tons of grain analogy
but in any case, part of the problem is that not enough people are in the pools. I dont see why everyone should not pay some (hopefully small) fee for health insurance. I do believe low-income workers should be able to use their tax money for that but on the other hand.. I don't get that plan b/c they already either dont pay taxes or get a refund..
so many things We the People do not get vis a vis this healthcare reform stuff

Look at the "Parable of the Rich Fool" in the Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible, at this link:

http://biblehub.com/drb/luke/12.htm