Posted on 08/28/2006 8:30:01 PM PDT by FairOpinion
The Dems are still working on this.
In CA, the overwhelmingly leftist Dem Legislature just passed a bill to have universal healthcare in CA.
California Assembly passes bill to provide universal health care
SEE THE FRENCH MEDICAL SYSTEM. Pure socialism and it takes forever to get to see a doctor.
The worst care anyone receives in America is better and faster and cheaper than anything government could provide if it were in charge.
The reason our healthcare can be more expensive is often a result of higher quality and availability.
Lots of people could do it worse for less money. That's not the trick. And government's track record is to do it worse for more money. What the democrats want is for that money to be somebody elses. And sell their votes for it motivated by class warfare.
On a positive note: The waiting list for an abortion is 10 months long.
Somewhere there are liberal, activists "judges" rubbing their hands together just waiting to "decide" that denying "universal healthcare" to illegal aliens is "unconstitional." America will become the world's hospital waiting room.
I think the bill passed in CA to provide universal healthcare already specifically states that it includes illegals.
Social History:
1. Do you drink alcohol....and how much daily?
2. Have you ever, or do you smoke?
3. Do you drive a car?
I answered the first one, and then rethought the whole thing and scribbled out my response.....
approx. 1 mole
I was depressed for 24 hours when I read of that CA bill. don't those morons ever learn? One crisis after another.
Be informed- and be WARNED. You won't see those frightening statistics discussed in the MSM-wonder why.........
We would be the Katrina of medical care if we allowed the Democrats to force socialized medicine.
Well, considering every major American company is getting crushed by health care costs and the expenses to manage those programs, medical bills are driving thousands to bankruptcy (even if they have health insurance), Health costs take up 13% of our GDP (the highest in the world) and US consumers are forced to accept the care accountants in the HMO say they need and not the doctors.
I think most people don't realize the devatating, and I do mean devastating effects on their health and very lives socilized healthcare would have.
A sane point from one of the articles about the CA socialized medicine the Legislature just passed:
"But opponents counter that access to health care would be limited under a single-payer system because care would be rationed and the latest medical technologies would no longer be widely available.
They also argue that the reform would result in a multi-billion dollar tax hike, and the state’s population would explode as people moved to California to take advantage of the new system, according to Senate and Assembly committee reports which list arguments for and against the bill. "
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690230/posts
WOW....what a rant.....I wasn't quoting the Bible, by the way.....I just like the thought that goodness (being good/doing good) wins......oh, and by the way, if the doc had ASKED me, YES, I would have answered, but when they are titled SOCIAL HISTORY (NOT Medical) on a form......I find them idiotic. Have a good day to you to. SHEESH.
P.S.....LOTS of things constrict blood vessels.....fatty food, high blood pressure,
Good luck on your cataract surgery....some day I'll have mine fixed, too.....they just keep saying wait.
ping
In Canada with goverment run health care even worse certain politically correct procedures get priority funding...abortions of course and even transgender operations..you may have to wait months for hip replacement but no shortage of funding for abortion
If there is socialized medicine, I imagine they'd just remove the age limits to Medicare and open it to everyone (amd good luck getting them to screen for citizenship). I'm not retired (or in the medical field) so I've never dealt with Medicare, is it appreciably worse than Blue Cross or other private insurers?
Sooner or later, the Democrats are going to win Congress and crush the present health care system. The issue is, what's the least bad option? I'm doubtful that an expanded Medicare is worse than Hillarycare-- government controlling private insurers.
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