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Insurance based healthcare plan will further rob AmericansThere is a lot of media hype regarding the various plans proposed by Democratic candidates. I fear people are used to being forced to pay corporations for everything they need for their survival, and so they will just support one of these plans. These proposals perpetuate the unacceptable status quo path, which is never going to lead to a fair solution to the problem of people’s access to healthcare in this country. It is time that the people of the US stand up for what they really want, even according to polls, and what they really need. In fact, what their tax money should already be paying for. It disgusts me, the garbage I hear propigated on NPR and other media outlets, regarding insurance based healthcare plans. Do people really need a new law forcing them to pay “free market” corporations for health insurance as they do car insurance? We already are slavishly dependent upon corporations for everything we want and need. Who is the market “free” for? Certainly not the payer of bills. If we really took an honest look at the way this government is going about allocating our tax money, the money we work for, the money which could be used for a fair healthcare system, I think we would all come to the same conclusion. Regardless of persuasion. We should be spending our tax dollars to make sure we have an excellent society, with universal access to healthcare–not tied to motives of corporate profit– as well as an excellent educational system accessible to everyone and for innovation aimed at healthier, happier lives for everyone here. We have the money. We are moving billions of dollars of our own money out of our own hands for unnecessary war, for bribing or sustain our “allies” in various regions, for everything associated with this ad nauseum. Just follow the money, if you can, and you will see a pattern of robbing the American people of money they work hard to earn, and that as they are spending more and more time away from their family and those close to them in order to earn it. That money should be going toward making this country a very desirable, less fearful, more incredible and just place to live. We could have this as our economic agenda, but instead we pay billions to firms like Blackwater. We spend a record amount of money on war and get into record debt. Our money should be just that, our money. But instead it's reappropriated to profit corporations.
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Bunny, It was about 15 years ago that Hillary Clinton...
first proposed that we had a crisis in the health care area. She had a plan to help solve the problem.
In return for her efforts then, she was attacked by every media source 24/7 until she was forced to give up the idea.
I do not blame her for her more careful approach at this point. Since her initial foray into healthcare, a much larger percent of corporations and business owners have given up attempting to afford medical care for their employees. If healthcare was not in crisis then, it certainly is now.
The real answer is universal healthcare for all. I believe she knows this and will head in that direction--if elected.
In the meantime, we have a mess on our hands. The claims are that universal healthcare is out of the realm of possibility. As you say, we can freely throw money away on needless and illegal wars and other political shenanigans, but have nothing left for our own people.
Our problem is that we have to install officers and leaders who will go in the direction we all need. This comes first.
A mind once expanded can never return to its original dimensions.
Anne Hathaway: 1556-1623
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
tHIS IS A SICK GROUP OF POLITICIANS WHO NEVER WENT WITHOUT
healthcare. I think we should fund our own system and if need be bypass the whole lot of them with People's insurance for every legal American citizen.
I live in an urban community in VA, and the roads are horrible. Every year two or three wheel alignments and suspension damage. Can't afford to figure where are tax dollars went after all these years? Funding these idiots campaigns with our hard earned dollars tax time after tax time after tax time. Now they've hooked up with the banks and small loansharking businesses and are robbing us triple time with exorbant interest rates.
Who are these government lackies and loansharks. The Dynasty families have many tentacles to strangle us with, as long as we think we need that new coat, 13th pair of jeans or some music box that we have to have a computer to load music on. That excessive entertainment bill. they stopped making cassette tapes to keep you buying renewed cc's because they are made in China and get scratched easily.
You can't record off the car radio's anymore because they want you to keep their pockets full with what they say we need.
Don't believe the hype. Our forefathers read for over three hundred years and if all that's on is Britney's or Paris's ass turned up, turn off the advertisements so they know you mean business.
Their fall line up is the trap to sucker you into holidays that don't represent the name. Christ's Mass. What's up with chopping down more earth lungs to throw lights and popcorn on a tree that took up to seven years to grow.
Not very smart ecologically.
We used the artificial trees in the seveties, to stop them from chopping Christmas trees and at one time had to import some Canadian Firns. Are we going back to that.
Smart ecological ways to stop global warming are still available for knowledge through your parents. They sound a little cavemanish, but they work and are much much cheaper to heat or power your homes and cars.
If you can kill innocent Iraqi women and children for black gold and Iraqi texas tea, then we should be able to make marajuana legal and make our cars go further than gasoline, and much much cleaner.
They cna't make money on the war on drugs if we make it legal. A wise old man said once the biggest crime family is the US government. They are like an octopus with multiple growing arms, that don't lift you but drown you in a sea of deficits.
Our healthcare is just that, ours. Our decision, our choice and our money to be spent on our system for the People with out denying, lying corporate middlemen who care not for us, but the bottom line. When it comes to my child living or filling your corporate coffers, I take the child in door #1 Alex.
mommapanther
I couldn't resist...
...but I just came in from watering the same tree we use for Christmas "every" year. We pot a pine tree when it's about 4 feet tall. Then bring it in every year for Christmas for several years in a row. Then it gets planted as a windbreak.
LATHER, RINSE, REPEAT... ;)