Posted on 06/20/2007 10:16:47 PM PDT by goldstategop
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Additionally, the high salaries tend to attract the “best and brightest”. If you take away the financial incentive for medical professionals (which offsets the *years* of costly training), you’ll end up with a shortage of healthcare workers and, at the same time, a surplus of people lining up for “free” healthcare.
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I certainly agree. I will accept government subsidized premiums for PRIVATE healthcare insurance for the very poor. (Universal health care.)
But no more going to the emergency room instead of the doctor. And don't even bother going to the hospital without insurance. If you get hit by a car and don't have insurance -- who's supposed to pay for that?
If sick people show up without insurance, they should thrown out to die in the street. It's cruel, I know. But, what's the alternative? The broken system we already have.
We must stop caring for poor (or negligent) people who do not have insurance (including their kids and preemies) -- or we will ruin our health care system and drive costs even higher.
I’ll believe he’s in the mainstream when I see the pictures of his carcass face down in the East River. Thanks SB.
My prediction is that sicko isn’t going be anywhere near as big as F911. America’s healthcare system is still by far the best in the world. Nothing comes close and most americans know it.
Michael Moore released F911 and became the leftists darling claiming it would cause Bush to not get re-elected. Liberals rushed out to see it and gave Michael Moore two hundred million dollars in box office reciepts and dvd purchases. Well Bush won the re-election and Michael Moore disappeared for years. Then it came out that he owned engergy companies like Haliburton in his stock portfolio.
I bet the fat communist has owned the stocks of for-profit healthcare companies as well.
Even the dimbulb leftists are starting to catch on that they have been scammed by a limousine communist.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
LOL! Thanks for the chuckle. That’s definitely a keeper. :o)
We need to simplify the whole medical system. Pay as you go and cut out the freebies for the indigent and illegal.
i agree. socialized medicine would be a socialist’s dream, the end of a free market;
and a feminist dream, the curtailment of judeo-christian culture.
with this said, our current medical system SUX.
you wouldn’t believe what a doctor did to my father recently, or another surgeon did to a friend, or a store clerk’s failed operation by a surgeon.
a medical license is a license to steal and maim and kill.
Sleeping Beauty-what a totally appropriate name for a troll.
This is specious. You're not going to walk into the grocery store one day and be told you need $100,000 worth of green beans if you want to keep living.
The answer is regulation of Health Insurance companies who profit mightily off the middle class.
But, what's the alternative?
Solve the problem... Is that too much for you to grasp?
The broken system we already have.
Medicare, Medicaid and the eight hundred pound gorilla, the FDA. ...Solve the problem. Free market competition best serves individuals and civilization. Price discovery is critically important to the market. The more freedom the market has to compete the more accurate and efficient price discovery becomes. Initiation of force, -- for the most part foisted on business of all sizes via government regulations -- oppresses free competition. Force causes the market to lose its transparency Government has a monopoly on the initiation of force. Which for the most part government officials apply it in the interest of government, not the citizens and their businesses, markets and communities.
Also, for the most part citizens have allowed and sometimes welcomed the destructive (albeit camouflaged) government invasion of corruption foisted on the people's businesses, markets and communities by federal, state and often local governments.
If... no, when the people wake up to that realization, watch out!
The "natives" are growing increasingly restless. They're poised to get up in a lot of people's faces and shine spot-lights of honesty on their corruption, frauds, lies, spin and deceptions.
Wait til real socialized medicine is here. Quality of care will plummet. The people working at the DMV will be making decisions about your medical treatment.
Is there any way we can get Mexico to pay for the care of its nationals over here, most of who aren’t even supposed to BE here. I’m jolly sure that if the situation was reversed, Mexico would insist on the baksheesh or el gringo is tossed out in the street.
For how many of them is health coverage optional in their employment? Whatever their virtue may be, the rest are simply lucky.
Government-run health care IS NOT the answer. Why? Because it would further insulate the health care industry from answering to the consumer. It converts the health care system into a monopoly. And it would introduce rationing, waiting times and eliminate real health care choice. Now THAT's sicko.Well most Americans have all of those already thanks to HMOs. Or they wait in the ER instead and cost the tax payer even more.
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