Posted on 11/11/2002 10:53:53 PM PST by USA21
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Why not campaign as the party that gave bread and circuses to the masses?
Since the average life expectancy continues to grow while our reproduction rate stands below replacement (1.96), we need to blow the entire wad faster than bread and circuses. In the modern age, you have to run your Ponzi (I mean prescription pill) schemes much faster than the Roman Emperors did. Ah, progress.
Bush was the best we could get, but he is a RINO. Even the Great Bubba was able to bomb the Serbs into oblivion. We'll soon see whether compassionate conservatism was a brilliant ploy, or just another version of socialism lite.
Spoken like a true conservative!
Good. Cut off the DNC trial lawyer contributions. This is why health care costs are sky rocketing. Get rid of the frivolous DNC enouraged law suits, and the doctors can do their jobs the way they should be done.
The higher the cost of health care, the closer they get to their facist universal health care. Head 'em off at the pass.
What? No "Free health care and proscription drugs for EVERYONE?"
Poor AlGore. His dreams of a health care take over are RUINED!
(I like deficits. It slows down social spending. Deficits go away, social programs do not!)
Someone should bookmark that one. Perhaps you'd be more comfortable over at DU?
I personally think the cost of health care is way too high for most people - simply because of the overhead costs of bureaucracies, litigation, and inefficiency. But basic health care is actually quite cheap.
Do I think we ought to foot the bill for the elderly? No. The elderly in general are not social contributors. If they wish to prolong their existences, they may do so as long as they pay for it themselves. (Oh gosh, what a harsh view.)
On the other hand, I think prenatal care ought to be totally free. Because it pays for itself. It is generally cheap, and giving prenatal vitamins to pregnant women, and making sure that the babies will be healthy when brought to term, costs way, way, way less than lifetime care of babies born stupid or with birth defects because of ignorant, careless mothers who will then abandon the babies at the hospital or draw SSI payments for the baby (which they blow on drugs.)
There was a time when people actually saved for their retirement. That idea went out the window when during the great depression the younger people needed a job. The elderly were "carried" by government (taxpayer) funds until the depression was over. Hello??? The depresion has been over for years. Social Security was meant to be a temperary aid. Since then, the Democrats have "volenteered" to do everything for them,with other peoples money,of course.
Now, the eldrely are stuck in the Democrat rut with no way out. They're held financial prisoners because they believed the "great lie."
"Vote Democrat. We'll care for you - forever."
While the cost is way too high, the cause starts with the government. The system in this country favors employer paid insurance which equates in most instances into a system in which the patient has little responsibility for cost or interest in how much various types of care cost.
The government restricts the availability of medical care through licensure and restraints of trade. It increases the cost of meds by a prolonged and expensive process. It mandates various coverage by insurance for select groups that increases the cost for all.
Is government the only reason for expensive medical care? Of course not, but it is cause #1.
I think prenatal care ought to be totally free
No problem if you and others of like mind wish to pay for it. To coerce others who do not share your view is not conservative, IMO.
No problem if you and others of like mind wish to pay for it. To coerce others who do not share your view is not conservative, IMO.
I am a pragmatist. Consider we want to eliminate abortions. Now, the women who would otherwise get abortions are now going to carry those babies to term. But they don't want them. Therefore they are going to (a) be abusive to the "fetuses" (as they put it), and (b) not get any prenatal care if it costs them one dime, and then (c) when the baby is born they are going to abandon that baby as soon as possible.
So what are you going to do with all those sick, damaged, abandoned babies, hmmm? And you are going to pay! Of course, you could legislate that women who abandon their babies go to jail - so you can pay for them in jail and pay for their babies.
And who is going to adopt sick, damaged babies, hmmm? You? Or are you going to have some kind of govenment program to pay people to adopt them?
Sorry - any way you slice it, free prenatal care is VASTLY the cheapest solution. And since we are going to be forced to pay one way or another, this way we pay the least. At least this way when people adopt those abandoned babies they will be healthy.
This board is so funny sometimes.
Probably about as sweet as the smell of the burning corpse that is Reaganism.
Alas.
"What does that leave the Dimmies?"
A leg up on nationalization of American health care.
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