....this will make it easier for all of us. If we can convince the average American boob that every single person without health insurance is either an illegal alien or some bum who refuses to do his share, we can win this battle. We need to stop stories of working people being dropped, people desperate and taking jobs without benefits, people who work hard, but are denied coverage or priced twice their salary. This needs to be kept confidential. If we can convince the American people that these are all welfare cheats and illegals, we can keep the insurance system the way it is and continue to make more money off it. We've already done a good job of keeping Americans from finding out anything about health-care systems in nations such as Switzerland, Australia and Japan and Luxembourg and Taiwan because we've trained them to focus only on the two most defective ones, Britain and Canada, so that they never even bother to look at other systems. You have to love the American people, so dumbed down in their educational system and their entertainment that they are the perfect dupes...they'll keep getting raped by us in the insurance racket and they'll still think that this is the best of all possible worlds. We've got it all under control. It's so easy to control a society composed of people who, for the most part, know absolutely nothing about the outside world and think that life is a nightmare in every country except their own. God, I love Americans, they're so profitable!!!!!! Universal health care. Why don't you survey and do research on Australians, citizens of Taiwan, Singapore, Norway, Switzerland and Japan and find out. Start with Australia, find out how many Aussies wish they had our system instead. Then go look at their per-capita income, highest taxation rate, standard of living, life expectancy, infant mortality rate, and percentage who want the universal health care system abolished. Start there, then go look at the other industrialized nations, that is other than Canada and Britain. We all know very well about the failures of those systems. Ask yourself also why we don't have a massive exodus of Western Europeans and Aussies migrating to the United States. They appear rather happy where they are, for the most part and know about the rest of the world, unlike many of the posters here.
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Agree. We have Medicaid, so I don't see why it's a prob
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ha ha!
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You have to lie and spread fear like the GOP, since it's not true.
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LOL
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Here's a fact. Nearly 13 million people without health insurance make over $50,000 a year and choose not to have health insurance. Here's another fact. About 14 million people without health insurance are poor enough to qualify for government assistance, but choose not to get it.
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Since it is not true you can't.
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If the insurance companies weren't so greedy, employers could afford to provide insurance. Even then, most employers are greedy too and won't spend a dime for the employees, unless forced to. Taxpayers are picking up the tab because of corporate greed. No matter what system the US uses, it's not going to work due to that fact. This American isn't so dumb either. I don't listen to the news on TV, I see the news from the world on the internet and talk to others in other countries. Knowledge is power.
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Well said. Republicans are wholly owned subsidiaries of the insurance companies. ##
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Your sarcasm is as subtle as getting hit with a hammer. Everyone agrees that we need health care reform. What we don't agree on is that Congress can fix it. Their track record is deplorable.
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MA has 42% year over year cost increases. Hawaii has MASSIVE taxation. California is BANKRUPT. Maine it failed in. Prove it works. Show us your FANASTICALLY AMAZING "UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE" works. PROVE IT!!!
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Even though that was a long post, I'm glad I read it. It was humorous, but serious at the same time. You are right, Americans should learn more about other systems and not believe everything they are told.
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That's quite a twisted story. I bet your a liberal. Your not describing republican nor conservative values. Not everyone without health insurance is just a lazy bum as you describe. There are however way to many freeloaders.
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the sad part is there is a shadowy group ( zionists ? ) that are saying exactly that . ever think of going into politics ?
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The connies seem to have a plan in place.
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You guys really think the U.S. government which is full of corruption, fraud, and mismanagement will take good care of you when they take three years just to pay some soldier's bonus pay, don't take care of vets, cut medicare payouts to providers, and deny treatment to just as many people as the private insurance companies. Please!!! The bills they have now are just disaster and American bankruptcy waiting to happen.
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Two step plan: 1) wait "till they get fired, 2) tell them they can get Medicare. OR alternate: tell them to ask their European immigrant friends. Everybody know a lot of Euro immigrants, right, right. oh.
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He wants to impose on America social programs bigger than FDR and LBJ so that he can stake his claim in history as one of the progressive heroes. He knows that he will lose seats in November and the election of Scott Brown ushered in the reality that he could lose the majority in one or both chambers. He wants to do it now or he will not have the progressive legacy he believes is his birthright. The other thing is that he believes that if he tanks on health care he will be seen as a failure. Republicans said this issue could be his Waterloo and now some Democrats are expressing the same thing. He is more worried about his image, his legacy and whether he is viewed as a failure than he is about America or his own party. Obama is so worried about passing his agenda that he is embracing a procedure that violates Senate rules. The way this bill has been amended and will be voted on (vote on Senate bill, add amendments and send to Obama) is not how legislation is supposed to be accomplished but none of this matters because Obama wants it done at all costs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcBaSP31Be8
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You have a few valid points, actually you have a lot of valid points. I think the real problem for most of the people who oppose the health care reforms proposed by the president and congress is this. It's being crammed down their throats. There are serious problems in health care and they need to be addressed. The idea of millions of Americans not having access to quality health care is not true. It's having access to affordable health care. If being healthy costs money a lot of people aren't going to get it. Yet why should someone who works support someone who doesn't? What to do? The Swedish system consumes an enormous percentage of their GNP. The Canadian system has problems, as does the British. I've looked in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Nowhere does it say that health care is a right. It does say that you're entitled to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You've got to catch it yourself. We need Health care reform, but not this.
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You need the neurolyzer which zaps the memory for a few minutes and you can tell people what you want them to do like in that movie Men in Black. Health insurance should be a right and freedom. Not a company to make money!! Those health insurance companies are screwing with the free will to live.
