Would you rather pay for health care or live in a fascist state?

Answer 1

I would rather pay for Health Care.

Unfortunately only a small part of what we pay actually goes to health professionals. We pay the salaries of layers and layers of bureacrats at the insurance companies and for the dividends the stockholders of the insurance companies get.

-thanks Ted Kennedy for designing this mess back in the 60's and early 70's.

I would rather the money only went to the health professionals who actually treat us. I want them to feel good and be happy when they're providing me with medical care.

Going to a socialist system where the government paid instead of private insurance companies would only move the bureaucrats from the private sector to the govermnent sector. We would have to pay their salaries with more taxes.

The medical care would suffer because there is only so much money to go around - the U.S. already in debt and the deficits would get bigger.

Answer 2

I don't see the connection, why would one ever have to make such an obtuse choice. Health care is viewed by a majority of developed countries as a fundamental human right. Just because private health insurance is out of the profit equation, how does that equate into a facist state? Answer, it does not and this question is just another way of spreading misinformation.

Answer 3

Because those are the only two options, right? We must live in a fascist state with health care or in freedom without it. There is no way that freedom and healthcare can coexist. Is that what you're saying?

Answer 4

I would rather pay for it any day! There is a misconception that health care is a constitutional right and it is not! Many people that are touted in the uninsured numbers CHOOSE to be uninsured. Due to lifestyle choices, they cannot afford it. However, if they didn't drive an expensive car, didn't have the bigger house, have plasma's and every toy available for their kids, many more would have insurance. It is about budgeting and making choices. Unfortunately the government has issued an "entitlement" order for health care. Also, hospitals should not be required to provide non-emergency health care to uninsured persons INCLUDING law breaking illegals!

Answer 5

Damn good question...

Considering the fact that both are Leftist ideologies or policies I would say that we may wind up doing both.

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Mussolini's own summary of the Fascist philosophy: "Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato" (Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State)

The ideas of Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), the founder of Fascism, are remarkably similar to the ideas of modern-day Western Leftists. If Mussolini was not the direct teacher of modern-day Leftists, he was certainly a major predecessor. What Leftists advocate today is not, of course, totally identical with what Mussolini was advocating and doing 60 to 80 years ago in Italy but there are nonetheless extensive and surprising parallels. Early in the 20th century, he prophesied that the 20th century would be the century of Fascism and he got that right in that most of his ideas are still preached by the modern-day Left.
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/06/this-is-expanded-version-of-article.html
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Think whatever you will but, it's a great write up and argument nonetheless...
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Also see:
c) One of the most lasting results of the Frankfurt School was Theodore Adorno's work The Authoritarian Personality. In this work conservatives are painted as authoritarian and fascist. Marxists are painted as open-minded and tolerant. Edward Shils noted the political bias of Adorno and asked "Why was authoritarianism associated with fascism alone and not communism? Why was political and economic conservatism seen as connected with authoritarianism, while the demand for state socialism was not?" Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, p. 247, 248. It is our contention that Communism, Nazism and Fascism are all left-wing socialist worldviews. Nazism is bolshevism with a German twist and Fascism is bolshevism with an Italian twist. See Ludwig von Mises, Socialism, pp 523-532.
http://www.schwarzreport.org/

Answer 6

We have many, many more choices than that. I prefer to live in a democratic republic that is governed by the majority. Health Care is a minor issue in the grand scheme of things, but it leads to increase social programs that are unjust to the majority. Why is it that we are suppose to have, "liberty and justice for all" and yet you would be very unfair to the higher income tax bracket because they succeeded. What would any ones incentive to succeed be, Hey if I make more money, I can help my neighbors kids get free health care, and if I work an additional 20 hours of overtime I can pay for the Jones kids braces, you see that awful overbite he has.


Damn good Sharia,,, you sir are an educated man. Thanks for the read. Libsticker

Answer 7

I would rather pay taxes that would benefit a healthcare program... Believe me, paying for national healthcare would be a lot less than what I pay in private insurance. The private insurance companies are not getting the job done.

I don't know what "fascist" has to do with it.... Canada, the UK and other major succesful economies of democracies like this are far from fascism.

Answer 8

I would rather pay for my health care. Right now I can afford it. I would also not mind my tax dollars going to help the needy. Yes, I said the truly needy. The needy in this country. Not everywhere else.

Answer 9

You're not paying for health care,, you pay for insurance.
Nothing is free so you will pay pay pay pay. Even if you don't use it you will pay pay pay, sounds fascist to me.

Answer 10

That's easy. Of course I'd rather pay for health care. With my money.