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This same 46-48 million number of uninsured that keeps getting spread around by proponents of a UHS is being quoted from a Census Bureau study about health care in 2007. http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/p60-235.pdf
What they don't tell you about the numbers is interesting:
1. 9.7 million of those are not US citizens
2. 17.5 million of those make over $50,000 a year
3. 10 million were age 18-64 and didn't work
so if you take out the foreigners and people who choose not to pay for healthcare even though they can afford it, you are left with approx 20 million uninsured. Out of 300 million people. That is less than 7% of the population.
So we need UHS to take care of 7% of the population. Isn't that wonderful.
Your right screw the 7% and let's allocate the resources to israel and the miltary.
Let's not be constitutional fools. The constitution enumerates the federal power of raising a military and waging wars. It does not impute the right for nanny government to provide your health care.
So you don't give a **** about 7% of the population?
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Originally Posted by california_is_superior
Your right screw the 7% and let's allocate the resources to israel and the miltary.
How remarkably....
...naive.
In the midst of this enormous financial crisis, you're actually going to advocate that the government take on the most expensive entitlement program in the history of the world to cover 7% of the population?
Shyeah, right...
I hate to break it to you, but the single payer system is extremely unlikely to go anywhere. Not for a looooooong time. This country has much bigger fish to fry right now, and your grandchildren will be paying down Obama's debt long after your dead and buried.
In the midst of this enormous financial crisis, you're actually going to advocate that the government take on the most expensive entitlement program in the history of the world to cover 7% of the population?
Shyeah, right...
I hate to break it to you, but the single payer system is extremely unlikely to go anywhere. Not for a looooooong time. This country has much bigger fish to fry right now, and your grandchildren will be paying down Obama's debt long after your dead and buried.
...if the U.S. is still around, that is.
Please don't expect left wing lunatics to understand this clear piece of thinking.
Let's not be constitutional fools. The constitution enumerates the federal power of raising a military and waging wars. It does not impute the right for nanny government to provide your health care.
Really?
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political [Washington’s emphasis] connection as possible."
— Washington, Farewell Address (1796)
I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government, and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration,…peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.
— Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (1801)
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political [Washington’s emphasis] connection as possible."
— Washington, Farewell Address (1796)
I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government, and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration,…peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.
— Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (1801)
Why don't you lift a phrase from THE CONSTITUTION? And, furthermore, the one about your beloved entitlement...UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE?
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