OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Debate on health care reform is expected to begin on Capitol Hill after the Thanksgiving holiday.

But discussions are already happening on main streets across the United States.

In Overland Park, Kan., OBGYN, Dr. James Mirabile, is concerned about health care reform.

Mirabile says there are good and bad things about reform.

He is pleased that reform will mean an end to people being denied insurance because of pre-existing medical conditions.

But Mirabile thinks the proposed public option, government-run, health insurance plan is nothing more than socialized medicine that could mean delays in people getting treatment.

“You talk to anybody in another country under a socialized plan, they wait in line for their health care,” said Mirabile.

“I don’t know about you but you don’t have six hours to wait in the doctors office with 400 other people—That’s a government plan,” he emphasized.

Mirabile is also concerned that health care reform regulations could put him out of business.

“I’m going to have to let an employee go so I can afford to pay my insurance for my practice or pay the 8 percent penalty and let everybody else go to the government plan which is an option to do,” Mirabile added.

Barry Daneman is a volunteer with the group Communities creating Opportunities(CCO).

Daneman believes health care reform will not hurt physicians.

“The laws would improve reimbursement for physicians,” explained Daneman.

“They would raise the Medicare rate and also raise the Medicaid rate to 100-percent of the Medicare rate,” Daneman said.

The CCO volunteer also claims that small businesses will be exempt from regulations that would harm them.

“There are protections in the reform measures to make sure businesses will not be hurt,” said Daneman.

The CCO volunteer says health care reform will help millions of Americans get health insurance and health care who cannot afford it.

He added, “I do think there’s a lot of fear and misunderstanding.”

“It’s right for every one of us to be skeptical about a big change; I think that’s fine—but we shouldn’t be afraid to make changes because something could go wrong,” Daneman concluded