So far over $315 BILLION on Iraq war based on the LIE of WMD...what about medicare in U.S.? Do Americans care?

Question

I came across this article:

If America's So Great, Where's Our Health Care?

Lack of health insurance kills six times as many Americans each year as
9/11 did.

By Sarah Ruth van Gelder

Lack of health insurance kills six times as many Americans each year as
9/11 did.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15073.htm

I hope all who are against medicare for all will at least read articles on it, like the one I read.

Also, it may surprise you, but the public health we have in Canada is a lot more efficient financially (ie less costly on per capita basis) than the private system in US where about 50 million aren't even insured.

Tommy Douglas, a great Canadian politician, and father of medicare in Canada wrote a piece called MOUSELAND. Please Google it and read it. A lot of you who have responded sound like mouses voting for cats as leaders...Also, capitalism that you seem to advocate seems like the laws of the jungle, the survival of the fittest. Is it not time for humanity to go beyond the jungle stage?!

Answer 1

Not only is it killing thousands, it's causing a crisis in our
emergency rooms.
Someone without health care will contact a contagious disease,
won't be able to afford treatment & it will spread.
Consequences - it's a shame it will have to come to that
before someone gets it.

Answer 2

because special interests are represented more in the past decade than people. Unfortunateky any move that would level the playing field for the people in the middle is being demonized by the right. they are afraid that if they give an inch that we will radically socialize our society.

so for right now capitalism goes unchecked and people are suffering.

Answer 3

Everybody has to face medical problems as they grow older, get used to it! If you want good health care, go earn health insurance at a JOB.

But one thing we should not have to face is whether we're safe at work and in our homes from terrorists. We should always have a strong national security policy and strategy.

National security 1st liberal, THEN MEDICADE.

Answer 4

as far as your socialist ideas, how about you get your own insurance. Better yet, go up to canada, and wait for 6 months to get treated for your cold.

who lied?


this was all said before Bush was in office:

"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998.

"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998.

"Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face."
Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998.

"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983."
Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998

"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
Letter to President Clinton, signed by Sens. Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others Oct. 9, 1998.

"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998.

"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999.

Answer 5

umm honey we are capitalist not socialist, thats what makes our country so great and quess what health care is a socialist program, you know supported by the nazis.

if you want insurence then insure yourself, then if not do not. Im not going to be paying taxes so some fat *** smoker can get free health insurance.

Answer 6

oh, so lack of insurance kills six times as many americans as 9/11 did.

So japan hit pearl harbor. Oh well, six times as many die from lack of health insurance. Oh well. We won't go to war. wasn't that important.

Answer 7

It is what it always is; a misdirection of power and lack of intelligence. Just because the right thing needs to be done, doesn't mean that it will be done.

Answer 8

For some reason you are thinking health care is a right that should be funded by the government.this is called socialism.if you want to belong to a socialist government you should move to another country.

Answer 9

War, to keep the 'military-industrial complex' going,is so much more important to neo-idiot-moron-nazi-cons than health care for regular people!

Answer 10

You bet we care that is the reason we are going to vote in midterm, to stop George Bush Maniac Depression. 2008 please get here or Impeach raise your head.