by Royal Dragon on Mon May 19, 2008 2:49 pm
I don't think it's too American watching hard working people lose their homes to pay hospital bills, or like in my fathers case, who had major stomach surgery, and was promptly thrown out the very same day because he's on Medicare! Which then led to more complications, infection, and further surgery - The doctor is now being sued and he should be, he almost killed my dad!
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A National health care system will just be Medicare on a grander scale...do you really want EVERYONE condemned to that sort of health care? Right now only a percentage of the population has to suffer through that...you want EVERYONE to as well?
Folks better stay healthy these days because whether you have health insurance or not, the "insurance" only covers you for up to so much and for only so long. Hospitals trying to make more and more profit, will have less nurses, less doctors, and will almost always choose the cheaper action when the time comes. This is no way to take care of people's health and well-being. Every single country in the entire world, has socialized medicine, but of course, since we are the greediest we haven't come around yet, but i'm hopeful we will soon. I'm also scared shitless that I don't come down with some major illness or disease, because I can't count on getting what I morally and humanely deserve to get. It's a crap shoot today!
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The rest of the world has socialized medicine, and it's only marginally better than your Medicare experiences. WE have the best health care in the world. You seriously can't want to ruin that by letting the government take it over and turn it into a Giant medicare system do you?
Why would you want to take the best health care system ever, away from like 85% of the people because the 15% on medicare have it really bad? How does making the entire thing, so 100% of the people have to deal with a horrible greedy government run medicare grown out of controll program, seem like a good thing to you?
Also, as greedy and evil, uncaring, insensitive and down right cold government that exists ONLY to serve it's own interests can be, you think they will just open up thier pet funds to pay for your torn miniscus? You have to be on crack if you think they would do that. And if they do they are going to raise everyone's taxes to pay for it. That means IF you want something better than a giant nation wide medicare system, you not only have to pay exorbitant taxes for the national butcher shops, but you will STILL have to carry your own insurance anyway. Anyone who cares about thier health will be paying twice.
Really, look at the job that did with medicare. What makes you think they would do any better running everything?
Don't buy the propaganda and bullshit. It's all a lie. All one needs to do is look at Medicare to see what it will really be like.