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We Don't Give A D*amn If The Uninsured Live Or Die!
Wouldn't this be the most honest Republican response to the healthcare issue?
Instead of fear mongering and inventing stories of how terrible the healthcare is in other countries.
We Don't Give A D*amn If The Uninsured Live Or Die!
Wouldn't this be the most honest Republican response to the healthcare issue?
Instead of fear mongering and inventing stories of how terrible the healthcare is in other countries.
Reducing costs (allowing interstate purchasing of insurance) and eliminating fraud? Yes.
A common misconception. This should be a bi-partisan issue.
But, the facts:
"When the GOP was in charge of the Senate and the Oval Office, it passed COBRA and EMTALA, two major expansions of government regulation into health care. When the GOP controlled both house of Congress, it passed HIPAA, another big expansion of government regulation into health care, plus a new government health insurance program, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)."
NoodleFood: Republicans and Health Care (http://www.dianahsieh.com/blog/2007/08/republicans-and-health-care.html - broken link)
Bush also signed into law a landmark $400 billion Medicare program under his administration that did alot to cover senior citizen drug coverage.
For this argument - republicans as well as democrats have implemented many policies advocating medical care for all. Looking at it another way - republicans have been just as guilty and just as responsible for increasing socialized medicine as the democrats.
That's why this should be a bipartison issue.
But it does dismiss the point of your post, doesn't it?
You haved defined GOP ideology in a nutshell. **** everybody else, it is all about me, and they try to justify it by saying things like "We were never meant to be equal" or "God did not make us equal". They see absolutely no problem in building wealth by exploiting another human being, after all, nobody is forcing them to work for their companies and they are improving their workers lives by "creating jobs" Wow! It is a "free market" after all! These are supposed to be the followers of Jesus
We Don't Give A D*amn If The Uninsured Live Or Die!
Wouldn't this be the most honest Republican response to the healthcare issue?
Instead of fear mongering and inventing stories of how terrible the healthcare is in other countries.
Keeping the status quo definitely sends this message. Even the "insured" are getting denied for various medical treatments. I don't know some people respond to lies and fear-mongering when it is evident that a lot of people have fallen through (and continue to fall through) the cracks with our current system.
As far as how bad the healthcare is in other countries; I have no doubt that some people have never stepped foot outside their own state, much less this country, to actually WITNESS how other people in other countries live.
Where are people arguing for the status quo? I've yet to see a sign saying that at any of these townhalls. They are against this specific plan.
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