Stossel points out what makes our health care system so great. And how getting government out of it and actually letting the free market and competition make it even greater and cheaper. As opposed to the train wreck alternative of handing it over to the government to run.
2007-09-14 18:51:02 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
OK Willy P. I suppose you rely strictly on the left wing biased news organizations for 'credible' news.
2007-09-14 19:02:06 · update #1
Grocery insurance!! Why have hamburger when you can have steak?!
2007-09-14 19:03:03 · update #2
Here is an analogy:
When I was young, we belonged to a nice country club with a pool and tennis courts. Membership was limited to 300 families, so it would not get too crowded. Summers were idyllic. We would often go there at 7am for swim lessons, and stay till 10pm, having eaten lunch there, and been joined by our dad who would bring food for us to grill, just as many other families did. It was a real club in the sense that everyone knew each other. Going to the club was the absolute core of our summers.
Then, it got sold to the Park District. They filled in the deep end of the pool so they wouldn't have to worry so much about anyone drowning. The pool was ridiculously crowded, noisy, and unpleasant. Mothers would just drop their kids off and leave. So many unsupervised children made it a nightmare. The place was dirty, and you could never swim laps because it was overrun by so many people.
Now you understand what will happen if private medical care is replaced by Socialized medicine.
In another program, Stossel pointed out that Americans go to the doctor much more often than any other people on the planet, and take way, way more prescription drugs. We are also the fattest country on earth, and Socialized medicine would just be an excuse for people to demand fast, easy cures for their "obesity disease".
So, what do you want? A nice country club, or the nightmare of a dirty, over-crowded public pool?
2007-09-15 23:51:26 · answer #1 · answered by pachl@sbcglobal.net 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Anyone who has taken care of their business with the DMV on line , then tried to get service from a bank, an insurance company, or any major corporation and after navigating several menus only to be put on hold for 45 minutes then shuffled off to a call center in India before giving up in frustration can tell you about how efficient the free market system is. It's easier to mail a package across the country than buy groceries. Any time an insurance company or an HMO can deny service they can increase their profit.
2007-09-14 20:15:05 · answer #2 · answered by wyldfyr 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yeah, but nothing is free. If we get so called free medical attention it will be taken out of our taxes for sure. And anyways I rather pay and get taken care of right than getting it for free and have what ever done to me. We do have a problem with the medical insurance but we sure as hell don't want to get here what people are getting in their countries which is having to see a doctor or specialist in a waiting period who knows how long. That sure is not going to work in the United States. There's got to be a better solution, but not the one this guy Stosse is talking about.
2007-09-14 19:20:57 · answer #3 · answered by Esther 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I forgot to watch it, but I already get my information from more pure sources than Stossel (even though he is very good at what he does). However, because it is John Stossel, the libertarian whom the left absolutely hates, he isn't going to convince the Socialist True Believers anyways. They continue to believe in their reactionary Socialist economic system (for example, North Korea is stuck in the 50s as a result of socialism).
2007-09-14 19:12:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
I can't wait until Hillary gives us health care and it's run like any other government agency, like the DMV, or the Post office. There's a gloomy thought. Two lethargic doctors waiting on 40 or 50 patients, just like at the post office. God help us.
2007-09-14 19:05:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
Heaven forbid that should happen. Where's my grocery insurance? Damn. Everyone needs food.
2007-09-14 19:01:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
same thing romney wants to do with incerance, hmm go back to a free trade market.
2007-09-14 19:01:45 · answer #7 · answered by evilmonk66 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Television lowers your IQ.
That's the problem with America today. Too many people get their "opinions" spoon-fed to them by the hired shills and talking heads instead of doing their own thinking.
2007-09-14 19:04:09 · answer #8 · answered by obl_alive_and_well 4 · 2⤊ 5⤋
When liberals see the truth,they still deny it!!! Let's get everything free!!!! Listen libs...It ain't free!!!!
2007-09-14 19:05:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
no, i watch real news
--edit: john stossel is the biggest idiot, he washes and spins all of his facts
2007-09-14 18:57:24 · answer #10 · answered by William P. 1 · 5⤊ 7⤋