Here's a counter opinion in favor of Obama that I wrote as an editor,
in a sense that all good media should have at least one counter opinion anyway.
This doesn't necessarily represent the opinion of mine.

A Counter Opinion: As you see, practicing physicians simply don't like the plan as their income get screwed. Everything else they say are lies and disguises, only to pad their own checkbooks. So do the medical industries as their business get hit with government control and their profit gets hit as well. They are saying as if they really and genuinley care about us, but, sorry, what they really care is their own pockets, not us. Don't listen to them. They are only cheating you. Dear physicians... Even if Obama plan fails, you are not going to receive much benefit any way. You won't be any better off with the plan on or off. All the benefit goes to hospitals, insurance industries, and medical suppliers, but not to you. There's nothing left for you. All you get will be thin and lean salary checks from them. Long time ago, you have lost your clout. It's gone forever. No matter what you do, you are never going to get it back. You have become nothing but a few hapless pawns working for the health care industries. (I had been there myself.) Healthcare cost should be brought down to a reasonable level. Otherwise, health care cost will go up uncontrollably higher to the point where our life solely exists to serve and enrich medical care industries. It is almost at that area right now. When you get sick, you will loose everything you earned to buy medical cares. Our life, in the end, is to enrich the medical industries. They will keep you alive until they suck your money dry to the bottom, and, only when they see the dry bottom, they will let you die. Medical expense has to be controlled someway. Obama is taking the first step. It doesn't matter if the present form of his health plan is right or wrong, good or bad. We have to start somewhere and then gradually modify it to fit our circumstance later. We can not have a perfect plan (!!) from the beginning. (Perfect plan, good for everybody? Are you kidding? Is there such thing?) Today, if obama listens to doctors and medical industries, we have no hope. Obama should do exactly the reverse of what they say. Then, he and we will survive from this medical "snake-oil selling" nonsense. There is no sense of doing a lung transplant on a 100 year-old Alzheimer patiient. If you leave them alone, they will somehow justify it and they will do it !! Someone has to write a rule to stop it even though it may look cruel and inhumane. Nowadays, we are living long enough already, much longer than is necessary. If one thinks that life is too short, it's because of his own fault and laziness. His life is long enough. God (generic) has given him enough time. Only thing is that he has been just wasting it or too lazy to use it properly. Why do we have to help this guy? Any medical practices that may proplong the human life span beyond the useful age should be forbidden. With so few younger working people, who are going to take care of them after all?? Dear Physicians; Please don't go around and telling your people against Obama plan. You are nothing but pawns of the healthcare industries. There's no "soup" for you anyway, no matter how well you serve them. The stronger the medical care industries get, the weaker pawns you will be. Sad to be a pawn, why would you want to be a weaker pawn? Please don't worry about the philosophical and humane aspects of life and death. It is no longer your business any more. Nowadays, lawyers will decide it for you. See, you have lost the control of life and death of your patient long time ago. When was the last time you decide on your own without consulting a lawyer? Please do think about Mercedes, Ferraris, Posche, beautiful women,  and all those conspicuous spendings. If the things are going the way it's been going, even those monapolies won't be with you very long either.

This is from an e-mail by a physcian friend of mine.
Now you see why so many people in the town hall meetings all over the country
were so angry and upset.

This type of healthcare reform will bring to end the type of medical care we all Americans
have accustomed to.
Perhaps all of us have had the privilege having been in the best, ideal period of medicine in human history.
Incidentally, the definition of fascism according to the dictionary is
"A political philosophy, movement or a regime that exalts nation and
often race and stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a
dictatatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation and forcible
suppression of opposition."

I viewed these two opposing interpretations and regarding the possible solutions whereof, on sky-rocketing high costs of medical cares in our country.

I do not think ANY 100 y/o Alzheimer' or their family would request 'lung transplantation' to be done.  As I see, conspicuous culprits behind escalating costs concerns with development of high cost/high tech investigative inventions, unconscientious heaith care industries coupled with ever increasing litigations along the medical cares.

I wonder what are the opinions on these particular aspects especially from the second group of this disputes. Could anyone or the government prohibit any future more sophiscated inventions in medical technology?
What about the corrupt judicial systems in this country, which every citizens have been witnessing especially in the recent decades. 

"Could anyone or the government prohibit any future more sophiscated inventions in medical technology?"

This is exactly what Obama health plan is trying to achieve.
The plan tries to do away with the expensive unnecessary medical intervention on a patient whose future is hopeless as a reasonably dignified human being. But the health industry lobbies have twisted this into an act of fascism or some kind of criminal assault on humanity, thus giving "wrong" impression to the general public.
Only medical doctors can understand this matter but so few of them are interested or knowledgible enough to say the truth. Or so few of them are brave enough to challenge their bosses (healthcare industries) who write their salary checks. Without such restriction of medical care, the society will be full of vegetative human beings in the nursing homes and hospitals who will be staying alive forever.

"I do not think ANY 100 y/o Alzheimer' or their family would request 'lung transplantation' to be done."

Of course, I agree with you 100%. However, it won't be the patients or families who request such. The machinery of the healthcare industries will justify and do it, just for their profit, not for the welfare of the patient. That's exactly why they are viciously against the Obama plan. That's why we need the Obama healthcare plan or something similar !!
The sky-rocketing medical cost is not because we demand such medical care. The main culprit is the medical care industries and the legal system. Only effective way of controlling it is to have it nationalized.

The Obama plan is not perfect (neither are anyone else's) because it is , in reality, impossible to formulate a perfect plan. In our society, there are no such things as being perfect, morally, politically, medically, and philosophically.

The most important thing is to take a "first step" toward the right direction. Let's get the Obama plan started and then repair and modify as we go along.

Under the currently active system there are such rules as "Advance Directives" and "DNR(do not resuscitate)" orders existing to prevent unnecessary spending of money on terminal to preterminal patients.

I at the same time admit that this rule may be present with some rooms for more clarification and strengthening.

Anyway, jumping off to some fancy idea may not be a fool-proof solution. I believe we should resolve this very important issue with absolute prudence keeping in mind various ramifications whereof including tremendous financial and emotional burdens on the part of citizens. As I see it, the best way resides somewhere in "the happy medium."

I concur with Sun Bae Nim.
The only thing I am concerned about Obama's plan is the very serious question whether or not
a physician will be allowed to uphold the Hippocrates Oath and to continue that tradition in the future.
I'm afraid that once government comes between the patient and the doctor in a worse way than
the insurance companies currently do, the physician may find himself in an impossible situation to perform that highest calling, the Oath, he swore to God.

Our patients will just be numbers whose fates will be determined by the numbers, and we physicians are no longer patients' advocates as we are called to.
I'm aware that this is happening in Great Britain and Canada to a significant degree and the majority of the citizens seem to accept it as part of their fate although some rich folks find a way go outside the system. For example, it's been well known to doctors and the public in England that many patients are dying everyday while waiting for CABG or coronary stenting.

I have practiced Cardiology long enough to know when a paitent needs emergent, urgent or elective heart surgery or coronary intervention. I used to get terribly upset when my busy cardiac surgeon didn't understand the urgency and make the patient wait for too long because I cannot possibly, ethically, knowingly make the patient lose his life because of some surgeon's busy schedule.
Indeed unfortunately more than once patients did die while waiting for CABG.

Only the physicians know best what the patient needs and what his prognosis is, not some bureaucrats away
from the battle fields of the diseases.
I admit that so many doctors are dishonest, bad apples.
Yet this kind of government control, I'm afraid, will systemically and fundamentally uproot whatever we inherited
in our calling in the name of cost control.

I agree with that the sky-rocketting health care cost sholud be cut down
for the majority of Americans could afford to have a reasonable health coverage,

however I do not agree with how they are going to achieve this goal. I realize
it is extremely complicated and difficult task to get this as well.

Main culprit to prevent to achieving this goal is American judiciary system,I believe
and we should change our judiciary system rather than government's intervention
or dictation by insurance company and elderly should not be victimized either.

We should start with national tort reform and eventually get rid of that sacred word,
'CONTINGENCY FEE SYSTEM' for the lawyers.

This is the only country in the world to adapt this lotto style contingency fee system,
which is unheard of among any other profession as well.

God bless! America!    KJ

Either way, America will be just fine.
We should say...
God bless physicians !!
They still don't know where they are.