Now that the dems controll both houses will we now get universal health care and free college education?

Answer 1

Put your crack pipe down and step way back....they don't have "enough" control. Universal health care will not work in our capitalistic society...and College will never be free...it is all a business and they are out to make money...yours!!!!

Answer 2

I don't know if I have ever seen a politician that done what they said they were going to do. I'll believe it when I see it. No I don't see how they can make that happen.
I would like to add: Some other countries have this in place already, and it is working out OK for them. If we don't get free education, we will fall behind other countries, and will no longer hold our status as the great U.S.A. Education should be the top priority, because with an education, maybe one could afford health care. I do think the Health care issue will have to have limits to it, but if you think about it, we are right now supporting free health care for a lot of people that can't afford it now, so yes we need to move in that direction, but the cost of health care is out of control in this country. Doctors complain about not making enough money, and those poor poor drug companies are starving to death. The drug companies have too many political figures in their back pocket, and as long as they keep paying off doctors and politicians, nothing will change. Good Luck!!!

Answer 3

No, they had control of both houses of Congress and the Presidency for two years starting in January 1993. Back than, they tried to push this agenda through, and that's why the American people voted the Democrats out of power in Congress two years later.

hichefheidi, I thought you were a fellow Libertarian. Why do you side so frequently with the Democrats. I mean the Republicans are bad, but the Democrats are the antithesis of Libertarians. And I have to disagree, the Democrats would only need to controlled 2/3 of each house. If they had this margin. They could end any filibuster in the Senate and override any Presidential veto.

Moreover, why do you say Bush had no mandate in 2004? If you truly believe this, then you must also believe Clinton never had a mandate, since Bush's 2004 election victory percentage was higher than either of Bill Clinton's Presidential election victories.

Answer 4

1st there is only 1 House, the other is called the Senate: Both combined are collectively known as congress. So, the Dem's have Congress. Not both houses.

But to answer you: I would like to see health care expenses cut. The Health care system is a Big-business money making racket.

As, for free education: Let me ask you this: Did you go to a state run grade school, middle school, high school?? And your family since it has been in America has paid taxes. The College system is a Non-profit scam. As are all Non-profits. You do know just the NCAA sports dept. has a budget of 630 Billion? right? Scam!!

Why is it if for 7 generations my family has paid their taxes. That I can not go to school free? Or better yet? I am a veteran of the US NAVY. Why cant I go to school free on that idea?

Thanks

Answer 5

No 1st priority is fix the nations finances by raising taxes on the rich and cutting tax breaks for corporations. They will allow the govt to negotiate for medical prices which the republicans put into law we couldn't. That will drive down the cost of medicine. While I believe in universal health care to get it passed the Dem's would have to have 61 senate seats and 250 house seats to override veto's and filibusters. They won't be able to give free college tuition they will however fully fund the scholarship programs already out there.

Answer 6

Nothing is free and you will soon find that out the hard way. Ask England. They pay over $8 per gallon of gasoline. They also wait weeks to go to the doctor. Have to pay $50 for a doctor's excuse for work or school. Why? Because the doctors make no money. The gas is so high because of taxes. Universal anything is not good. Oh, college isn't free there anymore either. Socialism doesn't work!!!!

Answer 7

A healthful, nicely knowledgeable us of a. What a effing radical theory. i think of a hybrid of each and every is the respond. something like somebody pays $one hundred fifty according to 3 hundred and sixty 5 days. and a kin of four or greater tops out at $3 hundred according to 3 hundred and sixty 5 days. somebody would desire to take on the pharmaceutical companies. there is not any reason we are charged plenty for RX's. As to larger training, 2 yrs of better training would desire to be unfastened,no rely if a school or commerce college.

Answer 8

there is no such thing as FREE anything.
The Costs of Free Care
The first thing to realize is that free public medicine isn't really free. What the consumer doesn't pay, the taxpayer does, and with a vengeance. Public health expenditures in Quebec amount to 29 per cent of the provincial government budget. One-fifth of the revenues come from a wage tax of 3.22 per cent charged to employers and the rest comes from general taxes at the provincial and federal levels. It costs $1,200 per year in taxes for each Quebec citizen to have access to the public health system. This means that the average two-child family pays close to $5,000 per year in public health insurance. This is much more expensive than the most comprehensive private health insurance plan.

As demand rises and expensive technology is introduced, health costs soar. But with taxes already at a breaking point, government has little recourse but to try to hold down costs. In Quebec, hospitals have been facing budget cuts both in operating expenses and in capital expenditures. Hospital equipment is often outdated, and the number of general hospital beds dropped by 21 per cent from 1972 to 1980.

There is no way to supply all medical services to everybody, for the cost would be astronomical. What do you do for a six-year-old Montreal girl with a rare form of leukemia who can be cured only in a Wisconsin hospital at a cost of $350,000 -- a real case? Paradoxically for a socialized health system, the family had to appeal to public charity, a more and more common occurrence. In the first two months, the family received more than $100,000, including a single anonymous donation of $40,000.
Source(s):
Report of the Enquiry Commission on Health and Social Services, Government of Quebec

Report of the Enquiry Commission on Health and Social Services

Answer 9

Wouldn't that be nice...

AH.. comprehensive health care... its like a dream to me...


Oh sorry, a FANTASY!

Yeah, it would be nice but it isn't going to happen, there are too many people making too much money off of both medicine and those people have an interest in keeping the public uneducated as well.

So... I think its a fantasy that will remain a fantasy...

*Wonders if I could get my money back if they DID decide to give free education, or would I still owe those college loans*

hm.....

Answer 10

That would be nice. They could use the money they have for earmarks and pork barrel spending to fund that kind of thing. All the money spent on the war would have been better spent healing and treating the sick and educating the people who want an education. Education and health care ought to be free to American Citizens.