It's not about the healthcare.

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[CobinRain]

A foolish post by a foolish man. Americans already spend more than double per capita what is spent in countries with universal healthcare. But the American spend is NOT per capita but obscenely unevenly distributed. Universal health care in the US is NOT about printing money; it is about redistribution of wealth in favour of the poor.

[charlessmyth]

No. It is about what I said it was. US citizens and their international counterparts, pay too much for healthcare. This is because the Medical Industrial Complex is a government protected guild system which excludes almost all competition that would drive innovation and keep prices down. This is exacerbated by the practice of US medical practitioners who insist upon offering their services voluntarily, to the poor of other countries, that are too often the sworn enemies of the US.

[CobinRain]

@charlessmyth Yeah--you really have to try to stop those doctors from offering their services voluntarily to the poor of other countries.

You are in danger of disappearing up your own axiom. You have latched onto a freebooting capitalist model as the answer for the worlds woes and choose to ignore its failings. Do Americans pay too much for their health care or is that the money is just unfairly spent--good care for the rich; no care for the poor? Not acceptable in civilised countries.

[charlessmyth]

@CobinRain So move to Cuba, then, where you can be poor all of the time, as per government dictat, and have universal healthcare as a line of compensation. That said, it is interesting to note that Fidel Castro, hero of the revolution, chose to spend his money on private care in Spain. Have you considered training as a doctor and offering your services at a rate that the poor can afford.

[CobinRain]

@charlessmyth For an Ulsterman who think uncannily like a right wing bible belt american. That last ploy...if I dont like it move to Cuba...was a classic. Did it ever occur to you that Cuba might be poor because of the US trade embargo? Or that the US trade embargo is an instrument of foreign policy designed to ensure that the sustem of government in Cuba fails? pour encourager les autres?

And BTW Cuban doctors have been doing humanitarian work around the world for decades.

[charlessmyth]

Well, to the extent that 'God help's those, who help themselves'. As for Cuba: Cuba--in spite of attempts at a rapprochement by Eisenhower--deliberately threw its lot in with the genius of the USSR, and stumbled along until the USSR went belly up. The trade embargo didn't help, of course, but it also did not help for that embargo to lifted, for Castro to have pleaded for the USSR to nuke the US, which caused the Russians to be less enthusiastic about an entangling alliance with the Cubans.

[charlessmyth]

@aSuperbadassninja The US is a republic to the extent that it is not ruled by a monarchy in the traditional sense, but is now a democracy in which the Constitution and Bill of Rights have been consigned to the dustbin of history decades ago, and replaced by the Federal government and its institutions. This why more than 60% of US voters must stop not voting and go out and vote this 2010 and 2012.

[aSuperbadassninja]

this is dead on 5*S

[aSuperbadassninja]

the United States is a Republic

[FornaxFlaminius]

Milton Friedman was a child molester and charter member of NAMBLA.