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To: djstex

Opposing socialized medicine...

Where have you been? Promoting it?

“The America We Deserve: on Health Care

We must have universal health care

I’m a conservative on most issues but a liberal on health. It is an unacceptable but accurate fact that the number of uninsured Americans has risen to 42 million. Working out detailed plans will take time. But the goal should be clear: Our people are our greatest asset. We must take care of our own. We must have universal healthcare.
Our objective [should be] to make reforms for the moment and, longer term, to find an equivalent of the single-payer plan that is affordable, well-administered, and provides freedom of choice. Possible? The good news is, yes. There is already a system in place-the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program-that can act as a guide for all healthcare reform. It operates through a centralized agency that offers considerable range of choice. While this is a government program, it is also very much market-based. It allows 620 private insurance companies to compete for this market. Once a year participants can choose from plans which vary in benefits and costs.”


65 posted on 09/28/2015 7:37:32 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap")
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To: Pikachu_Dad
We do not need a plan on health care that is socialize medicine! Have YOU ever met people that live in countries that do? Well I had many Canadian friends that said the opposite of what you are saying, Their kids are not immunize at all. They wait for docs for long period of time to see them and their cost of living is by far worse than ours to simply afford their universal health care. I met people that came over here on a work visa and were so surprised and thrilled at how our system works for health. I'm by no means an authority on this subject but I do know a few in the health care profession. The many Canadians I knew loved our freedom of choice picking a health care plan through your own employer or buying your own plan. The poor were taken care of by our government with Medicaid.Unfortunately by slackers within our own Government this system has been abused!
72 posted on 09/28/2015 7:54:42 PM PDT by djstex
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