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And the totally outrageous cost of health care?
How can they afford it.
and before the person talks about medicaid, it is virtually impossible for most working class people to qualify for that.
Charities don't do squat-- I KNOW because I lived it.

So why do supposed christians start acting christ like and brotherly when it comes to the working class, compassion for the ill and their families? Instead they take the side of the billion dollar fat cats? something is wrong with this picture.
PRo life it is NOT.
IT really is true what they say about those neocons: they only care about the baby until it's born,
after that it's all: well, why can't you afford insurance? Get a job lazy whore! well if you can't pay for the insurance and the child care you should have kept your legs closed ho! --
the compassionate smile fades when she gives birth, they save their true feelings of hatred and disdain of the poor alone mother until after she gives birth.
me? probaby/promom

2006-09-14 13:21:33 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government Government

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Maybe because we don't want to be taxed to death like Canada and Britain and we don't want the long wait for healthcare. And I don't want my daughter to have teeth like Austin Powers just because the dental industry has been socialized just to suit you and your liberal socialist ideas.

2006-09-14 13:28:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Well, its not just the working class. Its anyone who has voted for the politicians that created the mess the medicine is in. Starting with LBJ. If we really had a medical system based on Free Enterprize we'd have a better more affordable medical care than we have now.

LBJ started the problem with the medicare idea. As soon as medical care was free for some the normal constraints which limit demand were removed and the cost of the government run system exploded out of control. Rather than fix the root cause which was government meddling, they tried to solve the government meddling problem with more government meddling problem and capped medicad payments, "fixed prices" in an attempt to control the governments cost.

That shifted the cost from the government to insurance providers who promptly started raising insurance premiums. Soon there was an insurance cost crisis. But never fear the government meddlers are ready to meddle some more. The next "fix" was for the government to set up "HMO's" that would solve the insurance problem.

Then we had the HMO scandals where the very politicians that created the HMO's were blaming them for problems created by government meddling.

Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. And that's where we're headed. Socialist medicine where a government bureaucrat will decide who lives and who dies on the waiting list.

"….but any study of society shows that every solution creates a new situation which breeds its own new needs and problems…..and these, even if they can in turn be solved, generate new situations , and with them new requirements—and so on, forever—and unpredictably.

We cannot legislate for the unknown consequences of consequences of consequences.

So I conclude that the very notion of a final solution is not only impracticable but,…incoherent also. The possibility of a final solution turns out to be an illusion; and a very dangerous one. For if one really believes that such a solution is possible, then surely no cost would be too high to obtain it: to make mankind just and happy and creative and harmonious forever…To make such an omelet, there is surely no limit to the number of eggs that should be broken—"

2006-09-14 15:24:33 · answer #2 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 0 0

It's a very big problem, and I sympathize. Individually, I have compassion for each and every person I know who cannot afford health insurance.

As a nation, however, the only thing that has proven to work is capitalism. Each and every citizen has to be responsible for the career path he/she has chosen and live within his/her means.

The federal government has already forced employers to cover many people with their health insurance. An example: COBRA laws make employers offer health insurance to former employees, even if they quit. The premiums are high, yes... but they don't even BEGIN to match the size of the claims that are paid out. Another example: HIPAA laws make employers cover pre-existing conditions if the new employee had prior coverage... even if it was Medicaid. So these employees start to work, pay a couple of premiums and then sock their new employer's health insurance plan with a $50,000 claim.
Who pays for that? All the other employees of the company get higher premiums.

The government has already interfered enough in this.....
it's time for PEOPLE to be responsible for themselves.

2006-09-14 13:36:33 · answer #3 · answered by mia2kl2002 7 · 0 0

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