[RFEngineer]

“I don’t accept the inevitability of nationalized medicine, and if you do, it would be difficult to call you a “conservative.””

Oh really? Well, if I can’t be a conservative, at least I can still be a republican.

That’s an asinine statement, but you’re entitled to it.

Let’s cut to the chase as to why you are so clueless.....Do you, or do you not pay for your own insurance?

This, of course is a trick question, because if you DID pay for your own insurance you wouldn’t be so self-deluded as to think that socialized medicine is not inevitable, given the cost, the cost growth of actually paying for it yourself. I’m not saying it’s a good thing that we’ll have socialized medicine, I’m just saying it is inevitable because of the expense of healthcare and the inability of average folks to afford insurance premiums.

So, who’s conservative now?

[justiceseeker93]

You are correct about "the expense of health care and the inability of average folks to afford insurance premiums." But, because the problem isn't a failure of free market economics but idiotic government policy that grossly distorts the market. That's why moving toward a solution entails a drastic change in the government policies that brought the problem about, rather than the extremist totatalitarian control of one seventh of the American economy by Big Brother!

And if you say you still can be a "republican" (I notice you spelled it with a small "r", but I'll assume you made a typo), that's fine and dandy. But, thank goodness, you won't find acquiescence to the inevitability of nationalized medicine in the GOP platform this year.