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[Kansasgrandmother]

Think Government is the answer to the problem? Think about it more. A Government in Control means Gov bureaucrats, paper-pushers, threats like IRS. My 29 year-old Canadian Cousin died 9July09 because Canadian Gov refused her care she needed. When Hospital finally listened & she was told she had cancer, told Oncologist on vacation & to wait til he returns. Doc wouldnt refer her to Hosp 2½ hours away where nearest Oncologist was. A Doc can CYA in Canada real easy, Gov doesnt listen to patients.

[Amarx00]

Are there ever any children who slip through the gap & actually dies because of all this?

Thanks

[AmbientMusic]

What can a child do for their country if they come down with Measles Mumps Polio Pox and whatever else may come along which they can't get inoculated for?!

[biglove269]

Ask not what you can do for your country but what your country can do for you.

[Metal509]

I am starting to remember the song:

"STUPID GIRL!!!! STUPID GIRL!!!!"

[dane3026]

Does our current system have problems? It sure does!!! (I just referenced one cause of the problems...tying health insurance to employment.) For an excellent read on the subject of health care in America read Dr. David Gratzer's book "The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care"

[dane3026]

Are 9 million children currently waiting to age 65 for health insurance? Nope! Not even close! Currently most health insurance plans are tied to employment (which it should not be), so as people move in and out of the workforce their insurance coverage comes and goes too. As a result, IIRC, about half the "uninsured" are uninsured for a period of 4 months on average (not to age 65).

[indoctus41]

Tye: Since you put so much stock in unbridled Capitalism, you will then have to put up with the corporate world's attack on your wallet, a sector that by law cannot place your interests ahead of its stockholders. Gov'ts are at least potentially responsible to you. The moneyed class has destroyed competition and so in my opinion, to think the US has competitive Capitalism (except for maybe selling shovels) is living in a conceptual world.

[tyeporter]

Tye=TyePorter - TY=Thank You.

The social benefits in those countries are based on the fact that they are socialist countries.

We're here in the US because we appreciate and enjoy the lack of gov't in our lives, in our business and in our wallets.

That said, the socialists here in this nation (read liberals) have caused it to be otherwise and would convert this nation to be like the rest of the world.

Anywho - What would YOU recommend?

[indoctus41]

Ty = tyeporter. You'll have to define republic. Going back to a laissez-faire system is always an option, but the social rest that would occur would quickly topple the regime. Tony Penn says that Americans fear their gov't, and this accounts for the govt's lack of concern for the population (Iraq war, health care, employee mal-treatment with little help from gov't). I believe social benefits in other countires (Spain, France, Germany) are better than in the US, and there is less propaganda.