Quote Originally Posted by birdgirl73
HighTill, I'm afraid you're the one here who has no idea what you're talking about. You're also the one who needs to read both our constitution and the Declaration of Independence so you won't be attributing information that neither document remotely addresses (your so-called "big government," which people who parrot what they've heard other say about free-market economics and univeral health care but who don't really understand how our health care economy works now love to shout about). Right now, you're putting the decisions about your health care, if you're lucky enough to have any at all, in the hands of big insurance, big pharmaceutical companies, and big hospital corporations. The assumption that private, for-profit industry is going to make decisions on your behalf, be a better steward of your money, and do justice by your personal health is just laughable. Talk to the people who need care now and you'll find out just how unfairly this is working currently.

Only the really uninformed are the ones who're frightened about "socialized medicine" or a "socialist state." I can already tell you that our future health care system--and it's coming eventually, one way or another--will have to be built around the privately structured system we have now. It'll most likely be a combination public-private system. That'll be very different from what you're imagining. You'd do well to read more, learn more about our current health care economy, and do far less fear-mongering until you know a lot more about what you're discussing. The right to choose these matters, by the way, lies in your hands and not in anyone else's. You elect your own government.


i'm sorry I will have to agree to disagree... as a citizen who can receive full government benefits, i think i have great knowledge of health... especially as my mother is/was an Rn, who has a doctorate in hospital managment, both of my grandfathers were physicians, and i have an uncle who is an xray tech... oh did i mention i have had cancer, and pnemonia NUMEROUS times... oh and i have never once used my insurance, except for a few trips to county clinics... i manage my health with mostly natural cures... but maybe i'm magic

lol, sorry for being a jerk, i digress

first, any vetran knows, government health care is a joke... absolutely... you can wait, or just recieve innadequate care... i have supplemental insurance OF COURSE, from a smaller, state targeted company

A TRUE free market, encourages large amounts of competition, and options, for any service free market is applied to. With less demand on one company, they must increase benefits, or drop prices, to maintain assets... very simple...

where as the alternative basically stunts all of this... do you know how much taxes canada and france have taken???? as compared to the average amount of benefits an individual will actually recieve????


lol tell me i do not understand money... hahahahhaha