supporters of national health care?
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Your link looks like a pension question, but you are using it for national health care purposes??? Would you rather ask about Social Security to make it more relevant?\n\nYou can get more information about this issue and analysis of the health-care problem from all the angles at the link below.\n\nLaissez-faire health-care economics makes no sense. Markets are good for some things, bad for much and  immoral for health-care. Markets can function efficiently if people have choices. There is no choice in your health-care requirements. If you have congestive heart failure, you can't say to yourself, "Ah, I don't need the attention of a thoracic surgeon this week, I'll put it off until next week."\nOr, "I don't have any need for cancer right now, I'll take indigestion instead."\n\nTherefore, a market solution will only distribute our health resources inefficiently and inequitably. Rich hypochondriacs get all the care they "need" while poor folks with bad hearts let their conditions deteriorate until they need the most expensive care available.\n\nOur high malpractice problems and claims are a direct result of having no national health insurance. When those poor folks who can't afford health-care finally are faced with a heart attack or some other acute episode, they head to the hospital to a doctor they've most likely never seen with no medical records to speak of. The doctors are "flying blind" trying to save the patients not knowing the full array of ailments, allergies, etc they might have.
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How 'bout doing it one thing at a time. Healthcare's more critical at the moment. I mean, talk about the only industrialized country, and a superpower to boot, which doesn't have a national healthcare system. Social Security doesn't count.
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Pancakes... ah how nice it is to be upper middle class, but maybe you should turn off the TV all together and visit some of our poor communities.... only the rich come here to get health care... the poor in the country can't afford it... just because they aren't the brightest, doesn't mean they shouldn't get health care...\n\nsimple answer to your question is greed... the sin of greed is very acceptable to our "moral conservatives," in fact it's encouraged...
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Are u kidding.  People in Canada hate their healthcare. Many Canadians come to the US for healthcare.  Soscialized medicine is NOT the answer.
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Let them be treated, because they are HUMAN too.\n\nIt's mostly not their fault they can't afford insurance.\n\nYou disgust me.\n\nGood idea Wildbill....if America had a NHS..maybe things would actually WORK....actually where i am from Australia..it DOES WORK.
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I think so... the current health care situation is laughable... it's only a matter of time before fewer people are insured than are insured, as costs continue to rise...\n\nI mean, I don't even understand how Republicans don't support it more... don't they realize the billions that businesses would save in the difference between the increase in taxes to pay for the program and what they pay now for healthcare now would be?
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I find it hard to believe that any Republican voted for a bill that was designed primarily to help out the individual worker or the small businessman.  I haven't done any homework, but when 100% of Republicans vote for a bill and no Democrats, I guarantee you the language of the bill is twisted so that large insurance companies get the most benefit at the EXPENSE of small businesses, such as real estate agents, despite what your Republican congressperson would want you to believe.\n\nPerhaps you shouldn't be so quick to jump to conclusions.\n\nEither that, or as is all too typical in the Republican-led House, the bill was so laden with pork added by gluttonous, back-patting representatives that while the Democrats would love to see everyone have health insurance, they couldn't vote for something so unconscionably self-serving.\n\nUpdate: found a couple of links, I assume the bill you mean is the "Small Business Health Fairness Act, H.R. 525", passed by the House in July, 2005.  Not really breaking news, I think\n\nThe Democrats oppose this bill because they had their own version and they believed the Republican version actually reduces the number of insured workers.  So I suppose it's how you feel about getting what you want at the expense of others who would be hurt by the bill.
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We need a health care system in this country and it will be hard to get. You know who is in congress. pro business!\n\nWe need a way to pool the Monet, an have some say into some things, like costs!\n\nHMO's who have people who are paid over 2 million a year plus bonus, plus their stockholders. They are taking all that from you before they have paid a thing!! There are over 450 HMO's in NJ!\n\nWhen I retired from the state, all of a sudden the HMO who represents retired state workers can get pills that I was paying over $12.00 each, I can get a 3 month supply for $4.00! That's right! $4.00 for three months!\n\nMedications is too expensive and needs to be brought under control. I don't have an issue with someone making a profit, but a 14 Million dollar income for 1 person in an HMO? That is obscene, and they have at least 3 more making more than 2 million a year. Now multiply that by the # of HMO's and the money they return to their shareholders, who didn't work a damn day!. That's a lot of money that goes to everything but health care.\n\nI have a ton of those example's, and I am sure we have enough smart people, who are not politicians, who can come up with a health care plan. What do you think an HMO is?
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I was inclined to support the action, because the president and a large majority of each house of congress did:\n\nhttp://hnn.us/articles/1282.html
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This is an article, about free healthcare, by Walter E. Williams. I hope I helped you..\nhttp://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/walterwilliams/2004/07/21/12421.html
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i'm in the UK, we have an equally mucked-up, directionless party in power and no viable opposition.\ni think ur just a normal person, exasperated with spaff politicians that bander 2 whatever they think will win/gain votes.\nour NHS is disintegrating b4 our eyes and no-one really seems 2 care.\nu r a free thinker that refuses 2 b pigeon-holed.\nmany more like u and the politicians may have no choice but sit up and listen.
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You better hope it isn't Hillary Clinton.  Unless you want to give up your freedoms to an even greater extent.  Do you want to have your taxes raised in order to pay for all the illegals to have health coverage as well?  I would vote for Mitt Romney of Mass.  I think however, that Rudolf Guliani has a good shot at the Presidency.
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as a member, yes. \n\nanytime they defend freedom, ANYBODY'S freedom, they speak for all of us, even the idiots who think they are a bad thing.
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People complain NON STOP about our President....Our countries REAL issue lies with our Congress and Representatives......Come on AMERICA.....make your elected officials tow the rope!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Their Health Care Plan is only a tiny piece of the pie that our elected officials are ripping from each and every one of us, each and every day!!!
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Yes, there are many.  I am not a Dem, but know many who are and DO support/favor President Bush - those that take a serious interest in actual legislation and do not swallow media propaganda as truth.
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The heart of your thinking I think would be best applied through strengthening the workers in this country (and thus the broad tax base) A strong family that is secure in it's health and it's retirement will turn their thoughts away from a day to day struggle that pursists today, and toward their surroundings. This would greatly help us to address other issues such as the environment and poverty right here at home. There should be a worker's rights amendment. The right to cheap health coverage. The right to job saftey. The right to a living wage. I think the fastest way to get this sort of broad based reform done is through organisation. Not like a classical union. More like an association that would draw together to leverage certain trhings from our government. Like a group that is millions strong would be able to negotiate better health coverage than even a large corporation could. Starting there and with similar issues that could be achieved through a voter soliderity almost like that of a union, but a little bit more effective, and with a different mission. It wouldn't be done through the work place, but at home so there couldn't be any kind of adverse reactions from corporates and the like. As long as you work and pay taxes, you would be eligable for membership. And with success, taking bigger bites at the apple. AAnd who knows, maybe something like that would end up putting a fire into our 2 party system of government. Or perhaps replace it altogether.
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Socialized medicine, like all forms of socialism, has been a world-wide failure. As people throughout the world from the Soviet Union to South America are learning, socialism cannot work. Socialism is fundamentally incompatible with human nature. \n\nHorrible Idea, we do not need another entitlement program in our country.  Would you like to be in a line for a kidney or a liver and never get one?  How about having innovation limited by promoting the status quo and mediocrity?  Don't fall for utopian ideals which are not achievable.\n\n"Throughout the world the story is the same: socialized medicine results in skyrocketing demand for nominally "free" health care, doctors are overburdened, medical services steadily deteriorate, and there are endless waiting lists for health care. In the Soviet Union before the collapse of Communism, anesthetics, painkillers, and most drugs were rationed; 57 percent of hospitals had no hot running water; and it was standard practice to clean needles with steel wool and reuse them.  In New Zealand, which has a population of just 3 million, there is a waiting list of 50,000 for surgery."\n\nMedicare and Medicaid are imposing horrendous costs upon American taxpayers. There is no free lunch. When health care is "free" (i.e., indirectly financed by taxation), there is little incentive for either patients or doctors to minimize costs. Government-guarantee medical services raise prices and costs, result in massive waste, and create a bureaucracy in a futile attempt to control costs. \n\nGovernment should get out of the medical insurance business. We will get far better value for our health care dollars if we spend them directly ourselves. \n\nI surely do not want this to happen here in the USA, and you shouldn't either!!  Please read the links.  Educate yourself and others about the truth!!