Why do I get the feeling?

Question

when democrats talk about universal healthcare, hard working people will pay more to cover freeloading leaches?

Answer 1

Because you're obviously a student of history.

The Canada-modeled Hillarycare we were offered in the 90's was a joke. Fortunately, America thought better of it and saved itself from the greatest policy travesty since Jimmy Carter gave away the Panama Canal. Since then, we've seen Health Canada all but collapse under the weight of its own bureaucracy, while American healthcare continues to be the best in the world. Meanwhile, government programs such as Medicare Part D and private programs such as the Partnership for Prescription Assistance are bring preventative and therapeutic drug coverage to tens of millions of previously uninsured or underinsured Americans.

The "problem" has been solved, all without the extremist socialist policies of the American Left -- so why are we still having this discussion? Simple: poverty pimps and class warfare junkies know that entitlements, even when not necessary, are an easy ticket into power. Hillary and her ilk know how to breed government-dependent voters; the question is, at what cost?

Answer 2

News flash: Democrats aren't the only ones talking about it, so are Republicans. Hard working people are already paying to cover freeloading leeches. Wouldn't it be better to have a system that benefits everyone and not just freeloaders?

Answer 3

We will to some degree. Of course the money for a universal health care system could also come from monies we are already spending on failed policies costing us no more than we currently are spending.

Some examples would be the billions spent annually on the complete failure called "the War on Drugs", which incidentally is a health care issue rather than a law enforcement issue to begin with. With so much money being spent on other policies that are defunct or not worth spending money on in the first place if that money was diverted from its current usage to something like universal health care

Answer 4

As a hard working person, I have no objections to helping make the city/town/place I live in better for everybody.

Answer 5

I think that we should have a free national health care system-
especially if you have been a productive citizen in our society.
I know too many people on disability that have never worked-some of these people are under 20 yrs old.

Answer 6

Any thing a democrat talks about is always a taxpayers burden and more govt in the private sector.

Answer 7

Yeah, probably. I'm all for getting what you pay for. Here's an idea for universal health care: work for it. Don't just sit around and whine for someone else to pay for your health care, that's ridiculous.

Answer 8

Because we will!