I disagree.
The GOP was in charge once. They did NOTHING to fix healthcare.
Obama created a mess, but he did something. We do not need to simply repeal Obamacare. We need to FIX OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM.
Everyone needs coverage. Everyone.
(Everyone who is legal, that is)
“... The GOP was in charge once ...”
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How do you define “in charge”, and when the GOP was “in charge”?
No. Everyone needs a job and the opportunity to obtain insurance in a free market. I'm sick of having to pay for everything that everyone needs. Do you think I go to work because I enjoy going to work? Hell no.
Single payer. That’s what you seem to be advocating. Socialized medicine. Nice.
Next... we're paying pharmaceutical companies premium prices while the rest of the world gets the drugs dirt cheap. This needs to stop. Also, I've seen several good drugs banned by the FDA (such as Darvocet) and replaced by more expensive, less effective and more dangerous drugs to appease the $$ going to big pharma.
Hospitals need to quit letting people use our emergency rooms like clinics. Illegals glut the ERs because they know they cannot be turned away and they never pay up. I have humanitarian compassion just as much as the next person, but it really fries me to see true emergencies delayed because of these people who could be treated in a clinic.
IMHO, we had better care when the bean counters weren't in charge and most hospitals were doctor-owned. All the regulations and high liability drove them to sell out to corporations... and it's been downhill ever since.
One last word on the illegals if you don't think they've been a burden on our healthcare system,,,check out how many of them outnumber paying citizens in our hospital maternity wards. It's shocking.... and WE are paying for it. /rant
Are you volunteering to pay for it?
“Everyone needs coverage. Everyone.”
So that’s it, you are just a socialist. There is no reason why everyone who needs something is entitled to receive it by the government forcing someone else to pay for it. That kind of thinking has always led to disaster and always will. Your thinking is very immature. Health care is not a “natural human right”, that is just childish. I spend a considerable amount of my time doing things to help others and am fortunate enough to have some neighbors who are willing to help me if I need it but none of us is foolish enough to think that we have a “natural human right” to DEMAND anything of anyone else. I put the term in quotation marks because it is so often used by socialists. I am not saying that you have used it.