Is Hilary Clinton trying to bankrupt America w/ another Democrat/Big Govt. program: Universal Health care that

Question

like Social Security (another failed Big Govt./Democrat program) that is hundreds of billions of dollars in debt & will completely implode when the Baby Boomers start retiring in great numbers?

Does Hilary just love making utopian type promises to the American people so that they'll vote for her or does she really want to bankrupt America's near future with another failed Democrat/Big Govt. program, that sound great but in the long run never work?

Answer 1

Walter Reed is a good example of Government health care.

Answer 2

No, I don't think that the intention is to bankrupt America. But I do think that they are working a very fine balancing act.

It is very clear that liberal socialist in American government want to regulate and tax the most productive in America for the benevolence of the least or un-productive in America.

Though the wealth "pie" size is ever changing, liberal socialist want to approach and reach the point where producers are still willing to produce and still be forced to give the maximum possible to the government for redistribution.

Socialist recognize that in order to stay in power, first they must increase the number of poor and under achieving voters to a point where their votes (having been bought by government subsidy) will keep them in office and second, tax the productive to the limit of their endurance and still keep them producing to support the whole scam.

It is a very fine line to walk and liberal socialist have traditional pushed the line too far thus causing people to give up on financial security and indipendence and become government recipients of handouts.

Thus the dwindling cycle of less revenues (higher and higher taxes) and more and more dropping into lethargy will cause an economic collapse of the country.

This is what happened to the Soviet Union.

This is why China has opened more and more of their economy to the free market system.

There is nothing static though. America will overcome this socialistic leaching of our wealth by the government and continue to grow and prosper or it will begin the long downward spiral into poverty and pain.

China will either allow free markets to expand (eventually to a point that the people will actually attain freedom and liberty) or they will begin to also leach every more strongly the wealth being created there and eventually fall also.

I know these are broad and sweeping statements, but I think that there is validity to them based upon how socialism actually works.

Answer 3

Pardon me while I barf. Communism makes me do that....

I am already not relying on SOcial Security to be there because I know it won't be. I don't know why she thinks that big government is the answer. Compared to the $1 you spend for health care today you are going to pay $1.75 to the government and you could spend $.75 if it was done privately by a non-profit. Seriously. A libertarian government would do better than a bloated government. The only answer is charity. People should get uber rewarded for donating to charity so that those charities can turn around and fund medical care for all (like churches that help the poor get care, that is infinitely more efficient than anything the government could muster).

I think it's all a pie-in-the-sky sales pitch so you will vote for her and then nothing will happen, as usual.

Answer 4

Universal Health Care will not bankrupt the country because there is only so much money to go around. Instead the level of service will be equal to nothing with long waits, substandard doctors and low quality care.

Now about Social Security, if the fund hadn't been raided year after year and the money left in the "Trust Fund" then Social Security would be fine. Instead the politicians have mortgaged the future of our rapidly aging society by ignoring their responsibility and letting the money be stolen for uses outside of Social Security.

Answer 5

Here's the deal, the Democrats have no interest in EVER actually having Universal Health care. Their interest is in having a segment of the population think it's what they're after. Because it will get them votes.

Be realistic, if the Democrats managed to do it.. they'd forever lose the vote of the middle class, who would end up with twice the taxes they're paying now ( while having the quality of the healthcare they reserve drastically decreased ). The DNC isn't that stupid.

Answer 6

universal healthcare works ok elsewhere, the major trade off is that instead of money it takes more time. Its tough for our government to become bankrupt, if she institutes expansionary policy instead of raising taxes that would be a problem, but thats exactly what President Bush is doing now anyways. Yes, she wants votes, but I'm sure she'll work on something, I think thats a mistake for her to support because in general we don't like paying taxes.
Social security didn't really fail, it worked for a long time, now the conditions have changed and people still want it - no one wants to change it so it is failing. Although this might depend on your opinion on social security in general which I don't have, I'm just going on consensus

Answer 7

The fact is, that there are many countries in Europe and the Middle East that offer universal healthcare, all at the highest rate offered by the state.

The problem is, with a larger welfare program comes a larger tax increase. France has both one of the most comprehensive healthcare programs in the world and the highest taxes. The US, meanwhile, is brilliantly known for its lack of a welfare program and low tax percentages. I guess your position on this issue really depends on whether it matter to you that a woman in Wyoming gets her cancer mediaction at your expense -- or not.

Answer 8

If you're really concerned about bankrupting America, what about the 46% increase in government spending by Bush? Don't you care?

And what about the moral bankruptcy of his Iraq fiasco?

Oh, and by the way, it's DEMOCRATIC. Get it right. Or maybe you're really a Neo-McCarthyite and not a Libertarian. Or is it just that grammar is too difficult for you?

Answer 9

Yes. She tried it when Billery was in office, and the American people knew it was wrong then. I hope they still do. English have universal health care, and what good has it done them? My two best friends are English, and they can't get proper dental care, for one. Her son can't get a good doctor to cure him from the hole that won't close in his heart, which he was born with. He has to make constant trips to the doctors who just keep giving him meds, but they don't work. My other friend keeps getting abscesses in his gums, and the dentists can't fix them. It's a mess. I would rather pay out of pocket for medical care, instead of waiting in a 2 mile line for it, like the USSR did for bread. Hillary will lead America to the path of destruction. I guarantee it! She is a socialist, and all wrong for America, and the ideals of a free society, as we were born to be FREE. We cannot lose our rights to make choices!

Answer 10

Right now American should not be trusted to run it's own health care program. Medicare alone spends more per patient then any other universal health system or private system for that matter.

Answer 11

Actually the country will be bankrupt before she takes office if she is elected. Dubya has pretty much depleted the surplus left by Bill Clinton and has taken money from every government agency and program he could so much so that the treasury is just about broke. Corporate America and China have much of it and the war has the rest. Maybe we should have bake sales to raise money to keep our government afloat.