Not so
Posted By: mt65sha on 2007-11-03
In Reply to: And put in the hands of government? - Americangirl
Every government program does not fail miserably - what a statement to make.
Your Republican congressmen, including those retired, get free health care at the expense of we taxpayers - the same subsidized/socialized medicine they vote against for the rest of us.
Why? Because their fatcat friends, the AMA, the various hospital associations, the insurance companies, who make money hand over fist in health care, pay big bucks to them to make sure the profit stays in the medical care business.
If you are naive enough to believe that the free market is the solution to any problem, much less the health care crisis, I suggest you open your mind, read some books and particularly read Adam Smith's original writings. He was so badly misquoted and his meaning misconstrued by Ronald Reagan and his political speech writers, that it boggles the mind. Reagan brain washed the American voters into believing that idiocy of the free market being the cure for everything. They failed to mention the other side of the free market principle - that for it to work properly, a certain percentage of unemployment would be necessary and hence, a means to care for the social and economic needs of those displaced workers was essential, lest the system become unstable.
What we have here is an unstable system. Unless you are very rich, if you get sick in this country, you face financial ruin.
Frankly, it scares me that people like you who are on automatic pilot when it comes to political opinions, are allowed to vote.
Please educate yourself before you speak, or in this case, write.
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