Queens County Conservatives Welcomes Wal-Mart

Queens County Conservative Party | June 19, 2006 | Raquel Lacomba Walker

[firebrand]

I'm going to start an organization called Conservatives for Government Health Insurance. I'm tired of paying more than one-fifth of my income for health-insurance premiums alone, and then taxes on top of that for all the people who don't have insurance. The middle class and upper middle class are getting it in the neck. File under W, for What Else Is New?

[Raquel]

God bless you. It sounds great to me. Any nearby farms for sale?

[Raquel]

Frankly, Toni, the title itself scares me. But I know you're not alone in this course of action. But if you think one-fifth of your salary is bad, just think how much your taxes will go up if the government has to pay for everyone's health insurance. And that same government health insurance that we're all paying for with are tax funds, will also pay for abortions, breast implants, Viagra, ect. ect. O.k. maybe not in the beginning, but you can't trust government to handle this burden, without screwing it up.

[Gabz]

As a matter of fact, there is a great deal of land for sale in these parts.

We lucked out when we bought 3 years ago.........there is a place for sale 2 miles south of us, on a lot smaller than what we had with the townhouse we sold to move here that is on the market for nearly 3times what we paid for this place........and we've got 2 acres.

[thulldud]

Graft in this sense might be considered a sort of improvement, I suppose.

[firebrand]

There would have to be controls in place, so that it is handled the way Medicare is, at low cost, not the way Medicaid is in New York State, full of fraud.

Eliminate the insurance companies, who are in business to keep our health care at a minimum and their profits at a maximum. Something like health care should not be a for-profit enterprise.

The reform should be done under a Republican Congress to avoid all the things you mention. Important to control waiting times, too, so we don't need to suffer the problems of the Canadian and British systems.

The richest country in the world can do it! Otherwise they are impoverishing people who have the gall to be self-employed, work for a small business, or, God forbid, get sick.