Do you really want those people to run your health care?
2007-09-16 05:05:14 · 9 answers · asked by Biggg 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
To the peons below who have gone out of their way to avoid any kind of information about conservative propositions about health care reform (notice how that is two words, kids) I have a bit of reading for you to do. Please go here. There are several articles and academic papers that may help you get a better idea. That is, if you are actually interested in seeing the other side of the argument, not just spouting things you heard on Air America.
http://www.cato.org/healthcare/
2007-09-16 13:35:43 · update #1
Your state must have a lousy dept. of motor vehicles. OR, you have some serious legal problems with licensing.
I live in Mississippi, generally considered backwards and low-ranked, yet a visit to renew my license takes barely 30 minutes, seated in comfortable chairs with plenty of good reading material provided and friendly civil servants.
I renew my car tags online.
Just where do you live that your health care is so great you have to foam at the mouth over a drivers license?
Got too many speeding tickets?
Come on, confess. Jesus is watching.
To the revisionist posting about Walter Reed, the portion that was in such disrepair was PRIVATIZED before the problems happened.
Do you understand the term Privatized? Huh?
2007-09-16 05:13:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I refuse to go. In my hometown, we have a place called MVD Express where you can get most of the services offered by the state's Motor Vehicle Department but it costs more. I'm willing to pay the extra $35 or whatever to get in and out in 10 minutes instead of being there hours. My time is valuable. Besides, this time of year 1/2 the people at the Motor Vehicle Dept. are sick and coughing up germs all over the place. Ugh! I'm no hypochondriac but I don't feel like standing in line for ages and, when I finally score a chair, having to sit next to someone that sounds like a cat trying to cough up a hairball. OMG, that wasn't YOU was it?
2016-05-21 00:41:54 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah, Grasshopper...you have missed the point! Nobodyhas suggested HEALTH CARE....the question is HEALTH INSURANCE. A single payer HEALTH INSURANCE program that leaves nobody out either on the paying side or the service side would save billions of dollars and save who knows how many lives. At this point far too many people have no insurance which means taxpayers, which includes the people who have no insurance must pay the tab....or, business' must provide massive amounts of capitial to pay for at least part of their employees health insurance..a dead loss to the business...don't forget that just doing the paper work is costly. Having a single payer would eliminate 50 state run Medicade programs, part of Medicare and part of the VA system. It would also eliminate dozens of high cost low benefit health insurance companies that simply can't or won't insure everyone at any price. Under the current system many people don't have insurance, many business can't afford to offer it, many doctors and hospitals never get paid and the problem continues. Nobody want the 'government' to employ all the doctors or own the hospitals....if you believe that's what's being discussed, you're wrong. It's just INSURANCE....it's not complicated and has nothing to do with the DMV.
2007-09-16 05:24:57 · answer #3 · answered by Noah H 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Has DMV in your area raised their fees or vehicle taxes by 80% since 2000? Has the average Americans earned 80% more income during the past 7 years? No. There is a big problem in our health care system and it needs to be fixed sooner than later. If this is how capitalism works, this is how communism starts! Many parts of the world have gone through that during the last century, we don't need to go there! So let's fix the health care crisis!
2007-09-16 05:29:06 · answer #4 · answered by Phil 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
All I see from the conservatives is dire predictions about "socialized medicin"--but no constructive suggestions about how to reform our health care system , which is a mess and getting worse.
Well--here's a reality check: For average people out there, if it comes down to a choice between your political ideology and getting medical care for THEIR kids--your ideology is going to lose -- every time. And they will take socialized medicin--unless the conservatives start coming up with workable, realistic reform ideas.
REAL ideas. Not ideology. Not slogans. If the conservatives don't want socialized medicine, they are going to have to start providing some real alternatives.
Because when its THEIR kids--no one gives a rat's a-- about your political agenda.
2007-09-16 05:20:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The thing is that no one is proposing that the government nationalize the health care industry. The democrats have been proposing that either the government provide health INSURANCE as in the Medicare program or that the government require employers to provide health insurance. Either way health care is provided by the market the same way it is today.
2007-09-16 05:31:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is actually a very poor analogy. The DMV is a department that issues license plates and driver's licenses. It is not a service and you can choose not to use it.
2007-09-16 05:13:34 · answer #7 · answered by fangtaiyang 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why the DMV? The military uses socialized medicine... look at Walter Reed or the VA.
2007-09-16 05:15:21 · answer #8 · answered by mnbvcxz52773 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
THEY WANT DONORS FOR BODY PARTS, WHICH SAVES A LOT OF LIVES....WHICH IS A GOOD THING.
IS THAT WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT?
THE DMV JUST WANTS THE LETTER D PUT ON YOUR DRIVERS LICENSE
2007-09-16 05:14:50 · answer #9 · answered by mary 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋