[edger]

Sounds like you got the right idea. Now all you got to do is volunteer to pitch in and take care of a couple senior citizens for free and we will be back to a first-rate nation again. Not so?

[Asclepius]

When that concept finally sinks in then the fears will melt away and perhaps we can move towards a healthier life in every way instead of this huge dysfunctional hodgepodge we call Conservatism.

I wonder when you will learn to compose a proper paragraph? You know, topic sentences, levels of generality, local coherence, topical consistency, clear transitions etc., etc.

Do you not see how our public schools have failed you, left you not only unable to articulate yourself intelligently, but barely literate at all? And you want to do the same to our healthcare system?!

[Liberal Bob]

more humanitarian way of dealing with the health needs of the general public.

You mean like long lines and extended wait for major surgery. Like Canada and England? Yep you’re right every country in the world feels sorry for the poor in America POOOOR AMERICANS.

[dighton]

Welcome to FreeRepublic, which has decided to take your advice.

The estimated wait time for an emergency ZOT is 4 months, 2 weeks, and 18 days. Please be patient.

[SoDak]

Why do you hate people and want to enslave them? Do you think so little of your fellow man as to assume that he or she cannot get by without you?

[Brett66]

Would you let anyone in your family go without a doctor or healthcare if they needed it?

It seems that you would, if government didn't pay for it. Government is not a substitute for personal responsibility.

[JennysCool]

ZOT!

[nicmarlo]

How do you treat members of your own family?

When they're children, they get hand outs. When they're adults, they must act like adults: be self-sufficient and independent providers, not leeches off me or others. Work for your bread, not living with a mind expecting entitlements. Anything beyond that, is a GIFT.

[ladyinred]

Well, I know you are gone dear, but perhaps your mom can read this to you.
I don't want national health care because it would be lousy care, simple, end of story.

So until someone comes up with a plan that covers everyone, but still maintains the quality of care one can get on ones' own, I say NO WAY, NO THANKS!

[hellinahandcart]

When that concept finally sinks in then the fears will melt away

And the great big giant bill for this "gift" will get bigger every year. OOPS! I froze up again.

What are you, crazy?

[armymarinemom]

Ahhh.....the squeal of a dying snake coming to us in a last ditch effort of desperation. I love it when people come in here with pathetic rants. It shows hysteria at it's best.

[kylaka]

You need to do a lot of reading. You are way behind. Start with FDR's Folly. You can get it anywhere, except it seems if you look for it in a bookstore... under FDR, presidents, economics, fair deal, economics, raw deal, WW2, business, economics, or hippies.

Followup with Thomas Sowell's "Economics" for dummies. There are no charts or bell shaped curves for those averse to thinking beyond the next "Big Mac attack".

[Snake65]

When that concept finally sinks in then the fears will melt away and perhaps we can move towards a healthier life in every way instead of this huge dysfunctional hodgepodge we call Conservatism.

If this author's writing style, I'll call it "dysfunctional hodgepodge," is anything like his personality, the sooner he melts away the better.

He doesn't even use the pronoun "we" properly, let alone trickier concepts like "Conservativism." Back to Remedial English, Michaelangelo.

[stylin_geek]

As a conservative, my family is my business, why would I hand them over to the tender mercy of a dispassionate, uninterested government functionary? It certainly seems like you have no problem with it. I guess you want others to do that which you don't want to do, thereby relieving you of the burden.

[Spiff]

Go screw yourself, socialist scum.

[PA Engineer]

[BlessedBeGod]

You know, I think the moderators should have a ping list for ZOTs. I keep missing all the good ones. :-(

[cavtrooper21]

Socialized Medicine is:
1. My Dr having a few beers with his lunch before operating on me... Happens in England.
2. Having to wait for critical surgery because there are no Dr.s. .. Canada.
3. Having to "make do" with poor "generic" drugs because thats all the GOVERNMENT is allowing you to take, unless you can pay full price for the good stuff, but with the huge tax load to pay for socailized medicine, only the very rich or senior govenment officials can afford them...
Most countries with "socialized" medical care...
4. Dying while waiting for an ambulance because the GOVERNMENT says that your area only needs one, and that one is 45 miles away with a drunk that has fallen down and can't find his beer...
Actually happened in Sussex, England - note, area has 2 ambulances now, but only manpower for one....
5. Dying in the hospital from heatstroke and massive dehydration because there are no Drs or staff available. Why? Beacause they are all on Government regulated holidays.
France.

So, Thanks much you little pea brained drooling reject from your mother's apron strings, but I'll pass on the "wonderful idea" of socialized medicine.

I smell ozone... you'd better be running along now.

[BraveMan]

You've never been to Canada, have you?

[I still care]

Here's just ONE article on the British NHS...

"One of the Government's most eminent advisers on the health service has admitted that patients will not have an NHS they can be proud of for another decade. "

"Barry Jackson, president of the Royal College of Surgeons and a member of the Government's Modernisation Board, said change was so slow it would be 2010 before the public could be happy with the service they were getting."

"In an interview with The Observer, Jackson said fears about lower training standards, the arrival of foreign doctors to practice cardiac surgery and a lack of nurses was putting patient care at risk."

"He said he expected another winter crisis this year if there are high numbers of flu sufferers and said morale in the service had fallen under the Government, rather than risen."

The bleak assessment of the future of the NHS comes at a particularly embarrassing time for Tony Blair who will speak to a meeting of the Royal College on Tuesday.