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Thank you Sen. Whitehouse for standing up for our state and the country. These are the provisions in the "horrible" health care bill that Republicans have been railing against.
^ 100% agree with you, Holly. Is it any wonder the Party of No is screaming like stuck pigs? Now I'm not saying Republicans hate America -- I just don't think they love it the way they should, certainly not like we Democrats do. They won't be happy until EVERY American is eating cat food -- and not the good kind, mind you, not Fancy Feast, no, the kind in a pouch.
Our healthcare system is currently largely run by the insurance companies who are making enormous profits, often at the cost of people's lives. Although nothing is going to be perfect, I will take the fed govt any day based on their running of the Social Security system- which has been extremely efficient- and Medicare.
The federal government does not run anything efficiently. They need to stay out of our healthcare system.
Certainly not as "efficient" as, say, Lehman Brothers. Or AIG. Or Goldman-Sachs. I mean, these corporations were very "efficient" -- efficient in melting down the global economy and nearly bringing on another Great Depression. Thanks, but I'll trust the government on this one.
^ Uh, would that be the government that established a nation free of kings, ended slavery, established a transcontinental railroad, defeated Hitler, and found a cure for polio? That government? The government that ended child labor, established old-age retirement benefits, lifted millions from abject povery, invested in the world's greatest public higher education system, help create the great American middle class, ended inequality among races, provided clean air and clean air? That government?
Our government is imperfect, yes, but it does work. The only people who diss it are Republicans who, of course, are incapable of governing a lemonade stand and who regularly require government welfare. Go Figure.
Meantime, how's that Enron working out for ya? How about that AIG? Or Lehman? Or Worldcom? Are they making the nation stronger and more prosperous? Are they creating a better world, or just sucking on the federal teat as they screw ordinary Americans?
Trust in perverted, big-boy Wall Street capitalism -- now THAT'S not just an oxymoron, that's just freaking insane.
^ I hope you're right. I mean, who needs insurance companies and their fat-cat gazzilionaire executives when a single-payer system works so well? Why should the president of Aetna pull down $24,000,000 per year? That's nearly a half million a week. Why should the president of Cigna maked over $12 million?
Health care should not be a profit center -- health care is too critical to the nation.
Next up: Nationalization of the banks -- something that's long, long overdue, in my judgment anyway.
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