Eldo In The Weeds said:
I don't know why people are up in arms over socialized medicine. Every other western country has it. Do you see their people out in the streets protesting against it? No.
I lived in Japan for two years and used their socialized medicine. Basically, the gov there is the insurance company and the doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, etc are privately owned businesses/self-employed. You go to the doctor, he treats you and they send in paperwork to get paid. When you see the doctor is between you and him/her. The gov has nothing to do with appointments. I never had to wit for an appointment and I never saw the bill.
I'd have a lot more respect for the Republicans who are against gov healthcare if they didn't get it. And if they weren't accepting huge donations from insurance companies and their lobbies.
People write praising social health care... Save your time and trouble. One of my friends
DIED because of that oh-so-wonderful health care in Canada. He was told that all of the budgeted money for what he needed was already spent AND THAT HE SHOULD GET HIMSELF TO THE UNITED STATES SO HE COULD GET THE CARE HE NEEDED. How about you try praising socialistic health care to his widow and children? Wanna give that a shot?
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams fled the Canadian health care system to have his heart tended to in Miami, FL. He said "(But) this is not a unique phenomenon to me. This is something that happens with lots of families throughout this country, so I make no apologies for that." -
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadi ... _b-gsGGDxA
Just google Canadians come to US for health care. Several doctors I know in the northeast say they see an amazing number of Canadians coming to their offices for essential medical services because they can't get them in time at home. They pour across our northern border looking for health care like the illegals pour across our southern border looking for money. How's that socialism sound now???
My cousin married a Canadian girl and now lives in Canada. His wife told him they would both hold dual citizenship in both Canada and the United States of America. One of her big reasons??? So they could get the health care they needed in the United States as U.S. Citizens! That socialism still sounding good???
The taxes, fines, and penalties that are going to be rammed down your throat from this will make those socialist country's tax rates look reasonable.
The I.R.S. estimates they will have to hire up to 16,000 new 'enforcement' agents solely for the purpose of tracking every single American and making them prove they have government approved health care or pay a stiff fine.
SIXTEEN THOUSAND! Well, at least chairman maobama can now finally (and for the first time) honestly point to some jobs he created.
The Congress and the president are NOT subject to this health care law. They will continue to have what every American has today - CHOICE. Choice that they just took away from us without our consent. That socialism still sound good to you??
The elite from many of those wonderful nations that have socialized health care come to the United States of America when it's their own a$$ (or heart, or chronic disease) on the line. Again, and again, and again!
OVER HALF of the people surveyed in this country are adamant that they do not want socialized health care. OVER HALF. The commies, oh sorry - democrats stated more than once that they would pass this NO MATTER WHAT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC SAID OR WANTED. That is tyranny. They are not governing with the consent of the governed. PERIOD.
Socialism is communism light, and I will never support or condone it in any form. PERIOD.
DO I think reform is needed? Hell yes. It can start with tort reform, removing/banning drug advertising, etc.
Do I need a marxist system looming over the health care of myself and my loved ones?
HELL NO! I'm an American. I have a choice.
Thank God the Governor of the State of Mississippi feels the same way. He gave the Attorney General of Mississippi an ultimatum today. Either tell me that you are filing suit against this socialized health care bill, or the State of Mississippi will hire outside legal representation to do the job for you.
IF you want socialism, then how about you take 60% of your net worth, hand it to some crack head entitlement thug, then carry yourself back to that oh-so-wonderful country with the social medicine you love so much.