concerning socialized health care?
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Force all employers to give healthcare to their employees?\n\nDon't you see this as a Constitutional overreach by any level of government? By what right does government have to intervene in the private contract between an employer and their employees?\n\nThey really don't have any right or authority to impose this type of costs upon companies.\n\nIsn't it funny how people who whine about Bush and his alleged violations of the Constitution have no qualms about this type of usurpation of powers and invasion of privacy that is contrary to everything the Constitution was founded upon?
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health care\n homelessness\nstate services
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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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Health Care is a big problem for me, I have no health care and am a diabetic. I don't take all the medicines that I should to help control it because it is so expensive. It should be controled at worst so that it don't get so out of hand as it is now. I think it might help the research end because there would not be as huge a profit to just treat a disese. It would be better to cure it.
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Here are a few places make sure you follow up!\nGod Bless you!\nhttp://www.state.nj.us/nj/health/socserv/index.html
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The company I work for has offices in Canada - 80% of Canadians working for us pay for US health care out of their own pockets and come to doctors in the US.  There is a 6-9 month waiting period for MRIs up there!!!  Including for those who are in accidents/have severe problems.   Socialized medicine has failed the middle and lower classes in every country it's in.
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You can also throw the insurance company's into the mix, they have a good thing going and would hate to lose it to socialized medicine. They essentually set the rates that uninsured have to pay and it is wrong. I as an uninsured person have to pay full price for everything and the insurance companys set their own price as to what they will pay. In effect I am subsudizing the insurance companys low rates. This is wrong and I would like to see somebody do something about it, maybe as more become uninsured I will see it happen if I live long enough with substandard health care because I can not afford to pay full price.
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I am one of 45 million people without access to affordable health care. It affects my life every day as I am a diabetic and I do not take all the prescribed medicines that I am suppose to. It will probably shorten my life but it is the best I can do. I do not think it is a big issue for the general public, they are not effected by it one way or the other. But for those of of us that need to be able to see a Dr. regularly, It is a dangerous situation. I think that the real answer is to do away with the private insurance company's and offer national health care so that everyone has access to it if they need it. I understand that this would not be free health care as it has to be paid for by taxes, however I would rather see my money going for people like me then to send 10 billion a month to a war in Iraq that should have never been.
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The insurance company's lobby the politicians so that they will not go to socialized medicine, it would be a loss of billions of dollars to them, they would have to find a different racket, no pun intended as I do feel insurance company's are legal organized crime. Health care has soared in recent years and they are the main reason why. All you have to do is look north to see how well health care works without insurance company's.
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Dick DeVos (r. MI) running for governor thinks that those people should just get jobs.  When confronted with the fact that over 1 million of us have jobs and no health insurance, he responded with 'well they should get jobs and that way they will lead to better jobs that offer health care'.  Guess who I'm NOT voting for?  BTW democratic incmbent Granholm does NOT advocate socialzed healthcare, but rather a pool in the state that people can buy into, that is affordable health care..  This has been successful in states that have tried this.
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http://www.awcoslo.org/Sections/LivingInOslo/health_care_in_norway.htm
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Are you offering to pay for ever ones heath care, or are you offering my tax dollars to pay for it?  If you are going to pay for everyone health care I thank you.  If you are offering socialized medicine I don't think you'd like the wait.  My bother has government health care in Australia, unless one is on their death bed they have to wait in line.\n\nIf you don't like HMO health care, You will love government run health care.  The wealthy will still get premium health care, because they will pay for their own.  The masses will get Medicaid treatment.
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Here is some information about PI's health care system:\n\nhttp://www.doh.gov.ph/hsra/tsk/
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I think "writer" was on the right track...\n\nToo many people drawing social security, too few paying in.\n\nToo many people with a lower tax base, therefore, less income tax being paid into our system.\n\nToo many people using community "help" centers, ie, food banks, energy assistance, etc, with again, too few people donating to these centers.\n\nShortages in immunizations, like the flu shot shortage we just went through...(usually recommended for the very young & the elderly)\n\n(Yeah, most of these I think are financial burdens, it does seem that most of these could have been planned ahead for if we had only done it...)
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If by "free" you mean socialized health care, then you could start with Canada, France, and Germany amongst the most prominent. It should be noted, however, that there is no such thing as "free" health care. Citizens residing in nations with "free" health care pay more income tax to cover state medical expenses.
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Find everything you need at:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_and_American_health_care_systems_compared
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What would you like to do.  Do we need to turn ALL medical services over to the government?  Set everything at standardized prices, just like an oil change on your car, and take away the options of which doctor you go to, and what therapies you want used on your illnesses?  Medicine BECAME expensive with the advent of Medicare and health insurance. My mother in law was a nurse for 30 years, and she can tell you exactly when medical services went up.  It came about with the proliferation of medical insurance companies, and the liberal minded society that rewards people (and their attorneys) for being victims of "medical malpractice".  Oh, and if we centralize medical and health care within the government, you will not be able to go back if you do get stuck with a shitty doctor who completely fucks you up and sue them.