Health Care Monstrosity

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The current health care system of the United States of America is the 37th best in the world. We as a country also, have the most average expenditure on a health care system. Meaning, Americans pay more for coverage and actual care than any other country in the world. So, the reasonable answer to this this problem is, lets reform it. Problem is, how?

Liberals in the senate like Chris Dodd, Harry Reid, and Dianne Feinstein are proposing, what we all of course know about, this government takeover of the health care system. This idea is the most heated topic in America today. Democrats who earlier in the House in Fall voted yes on a flimsy government run option. This of course must be the solution to EVERYTHING. A government takeover. We really need a bureaucrat telling us how to live our lives and waht we should do about our care. The plan is so flimsey, that the recent ssenate vote has said no to the public option and cuts to Medicare and Medicade. So we have this strange bill that both former DNC Chairman Howard Dean and Republican elite both disagree on. This bill is an absolute mess. But this is not all the cons of this bill. Think of massive government spending. With two stimulus packages and third coming soon (And not to mention bailouts of almost every American company) the nation will be bankrupt by this bill. Think of it this way, $2,000,000,000,000 for the stimulus packages and another trillion well on the way, bailouts ranging to over $600,000,000 for multiple companies, as well as this healthcare bill, ranging around $240 billion.

So don't be afraid to ask the question, "Where is the, money to fund this unneeded program?"

Many people I know say, "Your're a monster for not wanting health care for all."

I respond with simply this, "Why should we force Americans to buy health insurance and tax them if they don't? and why should we cover those who are here illegally?"

Republicans in Congress like Mitch McConnell have introduced the GOP health care plan, and hey look at that, NO AMERICAN BANKRUPCY!!! Republicans have been unfairly painted as not wanting reform, when they have a plan better than the Pelosi-Reid-Obama care.

I hope my fellow Americans, Democrat, Republican, or Independent, will agree with me and speak out against this act of socialism that will forever damage our economy and health care system. Please do as I did, and contact your Senator or Rep. via E-mail or at least post your own opinion on this divisive issue.

P.S. at a current update, 57% of Americans or more disapprove of reform

And interestingly enough, 47% of Americans now want Bush back. Obama's inexperience is finally playing out as his already failed Presidency unfolds.

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top

Comparing the US health Care System to other countries without any in depth analysis is like comparing a watermelon to an apple.  The watermelon is bigger so it must be better, right?

If that is your way of comparison, then you can always find some yardstick that denigrates what you do not like, and elevates that which you do.  So it is with Health care.

The argument in the US (outside of who is better) is not one of health care for all (that already occurs), but the BEST health care for all.  No one doubts that a rich person can go in the hospital and obtain a private room, while the rest of us schmucks have to settle for semi-private.  What the rhetoric is trying to accomplish is for ALL to have private rooms, ALL to get that sty from their eye removed, ALL to get a titanium hip replacement, etc.

There are 2 ways to accomplish this.  One is to spend all the money there is and then more to make sure that everyone gets the health care of a rich person. The other is to make sure that no rich person can have any more than the least of us (the least common denominator syndrome).

Given that money is not endless (even in hyper-inflation, the absolute value does not change, just the relative denomination of the bills), the only solution, and that which will happen is to restrict health care for everyone.  That is what will happen.

Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top

I have to give it to the progressive arm of the Democrat party. They were quite crafty to label this bill  Health Care "Reform". They could have just as easily called it "cuddly puppies", who would be against that? The average uninformed citizen hears "reform" and it plays into the Congressional majorities hands when the opposition is against "reform". The caveat here is that most people don't want it anyway. Have the Democrats squandered their sympathetic word play? I would say yes, to a degree, but I imagine there are quite a few out there that are attracted to the buzz word and know nothing of the bill, or its implications. I hope the Senate Democrats are prepared to face their constituents when they go home for the holidays.

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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top

To the OP... If your profile is accurate (as you write with a flair that I believe most 14 year-olds are either incapable of or unwilling to do given the subject matter), then I do feel sorry for your generation. Never before in US history has a generation (mine, the boomer's , including gen X and Y (yes many voted for what they are getting right now)) placed such a great burden on another (and future) generations. Some of those will feel part of the pain, but you will have it your entire life, as well as your kids. So this is a sorry from the ones that were given the best of everything to the ones that will pay for everything.