you are right the government is messed up, but dont they have a responsibility to fix a broken healthcare system? who else would fix it? i think it is sad that both corporate America and our actual government is a jokeI just don't think our government is doing much right these days. Why do we want to trust them with something so important? And government is huge! We need to be careful giving the government too much control. Too much control=Too much power. I agree something needs to be done and I'm not naive enough to suggest that a magic bullet exists which will fix healthcare but I don't think more government control is the answer.
I don't pretend to have all the answers. This is a highly complicated and sensitive issue. I am an Independent/Libertarian so the last thing I want to see is a govt. takeover of healthcare. I want to see less govt. not more. If govt. takes over healthcare it will be bad for all of us I can tell you that. You think our freedoms have been trampled on already? You ain't seen nothin' yet!
It's all a matter of perspective. Governments inherently have a lot more power than the private sector. The govts job should be to regulate the private sector so that they aren't taking advantage of people and breaking laws. We don't need a ton of regulations, just enough to keep the corporations honest. One of the areas govt. has failed us is in the enforcing of the current regulations. The govt. may be looking out for us now but if we slowly give them more and more power..........when is it enough? When is it too much? Having all of these entitlement programs is very expensive. Somebody has to pay for that stuff. Where is that money going to come from? Taxes? Ok, lets look at that. If people have everything handed to them by the govt. what is their motivation then to be successful? Why work hard? If you are wealthy and that's considered bad by some then what is going to be their motivation to continue to be wealthy. Why should a few with most of the wealth pay for the masses? How is that fair? America was supposed to be a place where we all are born having the same opportunity. We know the system isn't perfect but are we all willing to sell our freedom for some free healthcare (that will probably cost more actually)? I'm not. I don't live in Europe or Canada. I live the U.S. I don't want socialized medicine. If you do then that's great but think about the questions I posed and see if you still feel the same. It's a sad reality of life but healthcare isn't a basic human right. If you believe that it is a right then isn't food? Should the govt. be in control of the food supply? Imagine how much power that would give them. I've been to countries who do control the food supply and trust me, you don't want that happening. We won't be able to sustain socialized healthcare in this country. We are in an economic crisis of epic proportions. The effects have probably just begun to be felt. This healthcare thing could send us into an even worse recession or even a depression. Europe is beginning to collapse so who knows what the future holds for them. The system needs to be fixed but govt. is seldom the answer to these sorts of problems. It's hard to see the big picture and nobody really knows if this will be good or bad. I tend to believe it's bad. I hope I'm wrong.
I assume you are referring to the postal service? Check your facts. The postal service has been hemorrhaging $$ for years. They've been in the news lately because they are talking about going to 5 day mail delivery service instead of 6 in order to save some $$.
That's right doc. And, what is this called, exactly? Its called RATIONING, and its the very same thing government will eventually do with government run health care.
? I guess you mean Bush... Get you head out of your ass wake up and look around at what is going on. The CURRENT US federal government (Obama) is in the process of taking as many of our freedoms away as they can under the belief it's in your best interest. The government is not interested in helping anyone individual they don't care about your health your job, family, cat, dog or what ever. It's about the money and telling people how they should live, because they know best.. Well they don't
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