Aderholt talks Government-Run Healthcare on Talk Radio

[airdreamlove]

You don't become a healthier person by buying better health insurance, and likewise, you don't become a healthier nation by incorporating national heathcare.

Prevention, that's my healthcare plan.

As far as free emergency room care, i'm all for that. Who's to say i won't get a snake bite next week on my camping trip?

[jprobus]

As far as not becoming "a healthier person by buying better health insurance," I agree.

But, poor people die everyday because they got sick and don't have health insurance—sick with ailments that you or I would survive because we do have health insurance, because we have a little pocket change.

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[jprobus]

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The fact that we live in the most wealthy, powerful nation in the world—a nation where we vainly chase after the plastic, proverbial Joneses every day, at ridiculous expense—and yet we allow people to die simply because they don't have enough money, is simply unconscionable and disgusting.

The cornerstone of Obama's plan, at least based on what we know so far, will surely be prevention—that's where the vaccines and screenings would come in, mandatory or not.

[airdreamlove]

We should be trying to make the knowlege more readily availible about how to have a long healthy life, Instead of catering to all the big industries that profit from Americans eating and behaving poorly.

[airdreamlove]

Manditory vaccines & health screenings anyone?