WHY ?
1. Surrender in the War on Terror
2. Destroy our healthcare system
3. Raise taxes
If socialized medicine passes, we are all dead.
they really are obsessed with control over our doctors and our bodies for some wierd reason!!!
Yeah, sure, Americans are willing to pay more taxes /sarc. The dumocrats just love to spend more of our money to buy votes from an ever expanding dependent class of citizens and resident aliens, legal and illegal.
more legalized theft..wonderful /sarc
With the conservative backed (anti-union) corporate lobby backing the liberals it should go pretty smoothly. Funny how things work....
I actually agree with the left on this one. The central problem is that insurance works by pooling people of comparable risk. In free markets insurance providers will skim the young and healthy and put them into low-cost risk pools. What do you do for the old and the sick? They are put into high-cost risk pools and basically pay their own way. But few people can actually afford to do that. We would end out like the Eskimos, who put the elderly on ice floes when they got too old.
Our current solution is that we do risk pooling by job. That is a fairly random assembly. People that are too old to work go into Medicare. But I think everyone will agree that the current system - an ad-hoc mixture of free markets and government intervention - is not good. So the only market based solution I can see is to pass two laws. First, make it illegal not to have health insurance. This will force everyone to buy health insurance (the healthy often opt out). Second, force all insurance companies to accept everyone no matter how sick, and to force everyone to pay the same rate for coverage.
This will not get rid of medicaid because poor people cannot afford health insurance. So even the minimal government solution is suspiciously like universal health care via vouchers.
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The irony is rich. How quickly liberals go from
"the gov't can't tell me what to do with my body" to
"only the gov't can tell me what to do with my body".
There’s no way liberals will want this if they think they will have to consume this “universal” healthcare.
There must be a loophole for elitists in their plans somewhere.
They would like to control that 15% of the economy, unaware that they already run 80% of the economy including that 15%.
The Left wants universal health care because it would suck the oxygen out of federal agencies/programs they consider “Evil”. #1 on their list is the DOD. After we finish paying for health care for every senior & illegal immigrant (or combination thereof), there will be no $$ left to pay for legimiate government, including the DOD, FBI, and Homeland Security (+ the Border Patrol).
If anything can crush our economy/society faster than the open borders scheme this is it. Put them both together and this country doesn’t stand a chance.
It’s not “universal health care”. We already have universal health care. We don’t have universal health care insurance nor a rational way to pay for it.
What they want is socialized medecine, paid for by all the suckers who will continue to work to pay the exorbitant taxes required by socialized medecine.
Jesus. I don't even know what comment to make.