If you attack the Clintons publically make sure all your friends know your not planning on commiting suicide ~ McCain 2008
Happiness is Obama's picture on the back of a milk carton.
Did you have anything meaningful to offer in rebuttal, or are you just fantasizing?
A man once said to me "you can get used to anything when money is involved".
He used to stuff weasels up his ass for twenty bucks a throw.
-Spyder Jerusalem
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Moore is not objective in his views at all.
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Nothing but small data error...
Both systems have issues. Ours isn't as bad as Moore made it out to be. The government controlled one has many issued too. How about waiting lists for things we don't have to wait for here? How about the cost of it all? It's not free. The taxes to cover that type of care is astronomical. On top of that, doesn't create an environment for creating better treatments. You take the profit out of the medical field, you kill innovations.
I don't give a SHIT about Michael Moore, or his "position" or wheteher he got a few numbers wrong.
The broad picture is whats really at issue and is what bears discussing.
This nitpicky bullshit is what shows that you really don't have any concept of whats really at stake or how much it means to America and its people.
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE cannot get, or afford, adequate healthcare, even thought they are insured.
HMOs profit by DENYING necessary medical services and benefits, and do so at the expense of those for whom healthcare should be non-negotiable.
Nobody should ever be refused healthcare, and certainly not on the basis of cost and profit.
A man once said to me "you can get used to anything when money is involved".
He used to stuff weasels up his ass for twenty bucks a throw.
-Spyder Jerusalem
I'm stll waiting on all those lies that MM supposedly told in his documentary piece "Sicko". Although he has been accused by the unquailified as telling lies, NOT ONE thing he said has been proven untrue.
If you attack the Clintons publically make sure all your friends know your not planning on commiting suicide ~ McCain 2008
Happiness is Obama's picture on the back of a milk carton.
While I disagree with your very generalised and unreferenced claims at least you've got an open mind on the issue. Now, to your points.
The taxes aren't astronomical - well they're not for me. And America being the wealthiest nation on Earth should be able to find money for a national healthcare scheme. Look at the military budget. If it were trimmed a bit it would have no effect on your ability to defend and it would make many citizens a lot better off. In Australia we pay the Medicare Levy - 1.5% of taxable income. http://www.ato.gov.au/individuals/co...tent/17482.htm
Medical research doesn't have to suffer under a national system - http://www.innovationaustralia.net/a...?article=0,xss -
Opponents of a national scheme or a single-payer scheme, here at least, are relying on blind ideology and the mantra of "pofit is good, private is best" without opening their minds to the possibility that another way is better. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publ...?doc_id=364436
I'm not arguing for any ideological approach to health care. I favour a hybrid system, a mix of public and private care and schemes but at the very least a scheme that affords everyone decent health care regardless of ability or inability to pay, that's all I ever suggested.
"Unbloodybreakable" DCI Gene Hunt, 2008