More Doctor's Rejecting New Medicaid Patients (million, welfare, work, tax)

[Goinback2011]

Originally Posted by Magritte25

See, I'm using my context clue skills to understand you are wishing death upon your fellow Americans.

Tell me again why I should take anything you say seriously?

You call for your fellow Americans' deaths because of disagreement over healthcare reform and I'm supposed to believe you are thinking rationally. I don't think so.

I could care less what you think or believe.

[AppalachianAmerican]

Originally Posted by Magritte25

Meh. The gloom-and-doom dire predictions don't scare me. Knowing quite a few people who live and have lived under the single payer system in other countries, I am looking forward to it.

Healthcare, like education and other public services, should not be a commodity.

Exactly. They wonder why countries in Western Europe have students in the US beat hands down as well as better working conditions,healthcare,live longer etc. They are cared for. I would not mind my taxes going up if I actually saw the benefit of that increase. I don't now. All I see is stuff being cut while taxes are sky high for me and the wife's checks.

[MissTerri]

Originally Posted by Magritte25

I'm a-ok with my taxes going up (along with the rich) if it means we have a single payer system.

Many people simply cannot afford for their taxes to go up even more. It's just not feasible.

[freightshaker]

Originally Posted by Magritte25

Meh. The gloom-and-doom dire predictions don't scare me. Knowing quite a few people who live and have lived under the single payer system in other countries, I am looking forward to it.

Healthcare, like education and other public services, should not be a commodity.

Name me a single social services program that the US government controls that is at or under budget, provides good service as it was designed to and is efficient.

[Magritte25]

Originally Posted by Goinback2011

I could care less what you think or believe.

Then you should.

[Magritte25]

Originally Posted by MissTerri

Many people simply cannot afford for their taxes to go up even more. It's just not feasible.

True.

But there are many of us who could afford a tax increase, myself included. Especially if that tax increase resulted in a single payer system.

[pghquest]

Originally Posted by Magritte25

I don't know if YOU, personally, missed anything. But many people missed the fact that Appalachian clearly stated doctors have to be PAID too.

Then why has he spent so much time whining that they arent performing services for free?

[MissTerri]

Originally Posted by Magritte25

True.

But there are many of us who could afford a tax increase, myself included. Especially if that tax increase resulted in a single payer system.

So we would only tax those who could afford it? How would that be determined?

[Magritte25]

Originally Posted by freightshaker

Name me a single social services program that the US government controls that is at or under budget, provides good service as it was designed to and is efficient.

No system is perfect. There will be mistakes, foul ups, abuses and poor management. That is any industry - public or private - across the board. You cannot exclude the human component.

But I can also tell you from personal experience, as a recipient and a witness to others, that many government programs have worked wonderfully in our favor. They've provided the hand up we needed to get out of poverty and concentrate on bettering society.

Some of those programs include, but are not limited to:

Free lunch program
Free public education
Government subsidized transportation
Section 8
SNAP/Food stamps
Medical assistance
LIHEAP
Cash assistance

[Magritte25]

Originally Posted by pghquest

Then why has he spent so much time whining that they arent performing services for free?

Please point to where he said that.