Cutting the heart out of health care reform? Pt2
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Hickey: Now is the time for people to pressure their representatives for a public health care option
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Baraks Health Care Reformation, Can it save America's people. .? Your opinion's are important! Goto my tube channel and read how
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Sure, if you're talking about the Fed Reserve. It's done wonders for the value of the dollar. Are you kidding me?! We don't have a free market, and the private sector is not the problem, it's gov mismanagement and interference.
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Yes, the private sector has done such a great job the economy!
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I'm very conflicted about this whole issue, a Universal healthcare option such as the one we have in the UK is unfair and is against freedom.
It involves coercion in the form of tax to pay for it, so some people pay and are never ill and some people are ill and never pay, but I just don't see a way to get universal coverage without involving the government.
I'm morally against government intervention and taxation but I don't see how the private sector can perform well enough.
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Yeah Im just fustrated that a Ralph Nader or Ron Paul can't break through into the main stream electoral arena (although Paul opposes single payer). It seens that it really doesn't matter wether the dems or the republicans get into power...becuase any 3rd rail issue like single payer is kept off the table anyway.
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Well, remember this. Social Security was also a privately funded program that the gov managed. Look how well that turned out. I don't want the gov managing any part of my life. Not my retirement decisions, not my health care decisions. I am so tired of the liberals parading this SINGLE PAYER INSURANCE program as if it would cost next to nothing. Remember how the HMO's were touted as the answer to sky rocketing health care costs? It's a crock, and I'm not buying into any more hair brained ideas.
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Yeah.
Just remember this:
If you have insurance, whether through your employer or out of your pocket, if you visit your doctor less often than other people in your program, you're paying for them; if you visit more often, they're paying for you. And a lot goes towards bonuses.
This is worth repeating because so many "conservatives" are clinging to "keep the gov of out my business": SINGLE PAYER is an INSURANCE program that could be PRIVATELY run. It's just non-profit, not socialism.
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Where I get my health insurance, who I get it from, or how much it costs me is my business, not yours, not the governments, and it is not for public consumption. I wouldn't even ask you such a personal question.
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bbburton,
"not a public matter"?
So you pay for health insurance yourself?
Or does your employer?
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When using terms like conservative and liberal, we ought to say more about the kind of policy we support since the words are so convoluted now. Recently, I read a description of the Supreme Court at conservative vs progressive like their opposites. Id consider myself progressive, because to get back to a more conservative gov, we need lots of change.
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Get sick, have a baby, break your arm .... you will quickly find out why medicine has to be socialized .... but you say, it's not .... of course it is .... insurance is socialism, run by a private company .... that is, the cost is spread among everyone and the person who benefits is the one who is sick/injured .... has to be that way or medical costs would quickly bankrupt anyone but the wealthiest. Question is ... who runs the socialist system, govt. or Paulson and co.
flimflamman 2 years ago 6
It's not as bad as so called "conservatives" stealing money from us to fund illegal wars and occupations around the world killing thousands of our soldiers and hundreds of thousands of civilians all of the while putting our country further into debt.
Instead of wasting our money on wars that only destroy lives why not move that funding into saving lives back home by providing them health care. There is nothing foolish in saving lives.
ArcticSlicer 2 years ago 6