tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546980.post2872405884672229072..comments2024-01-27T00:25:44.526-08:00Comments on Joe in and around Las Vegas: Rebuttal against healthcare reformJoeinVegashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05613274657685121948noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546980.post-29035401383940531682010-06-25T19:47:50.236-07:002010-06-25T19:47:50.236-07:00Excellent observation .... sometimes we say we hav...Excellent observation .... sometimes we say we have to attack that affects us but it would be better to go to the root of the matter .... thanks for the support should continue to articles like thistinea corporishttp://www.tineacorporis.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546980.post-50682685180549235392010-03-24T20:46:11.085-07:002010-03-24T20:46:11.085-07:00"We're already as close to Socialism as w..."We're already as close to Socialism as we can possibly get without crossing the line completely." I had to laugh at that, not just because most of the Americans I know seem to think Barack Obama is some kind of socialist (i.e they wouldn't know socialism if it rounded them up and shot them) but because of the underlying assumpotion that there's something BAAAAD about socialism. Wake up and smell the continent, folks: most of Europe is what you would consider socialist, and we get on pretty well, thanks.<br /><br />I got involved in a flaming session on a friend's Facebook page recently, which began when he'd made some comment about some kind of inequity, possibly to do with healthcare. I said something to the effect that I was proud to pay my taxes and that I viewed folk who whinged about their taxes as unpatriotic (which is maybe a slight exaggeration but not totally untrue). I think I said something about one of the functions of taxation being to redistribute wealth (in the sense of actual useful benefits) by uncoupling it from the possession of money, so it's not only the well-off who get doctors, education and the like. One of the other commenters said she was surprised I'd been honest enough to mention redistribution, as most "liberals" try to hide the idea. Er, not where I come from they don't.<br /><br />I wonder if DA realises how anti-American her argument looks. If I, a Brit, were to say that we take pride in our achievements, want to improve our standard of living and so on but that Americans are fat, lazy slobs who just want to live on welfare, I would be quite rightly castigated for racist remarks. Yet DA makes just such generalisations, and uses them to justify denying Americans the universal healthcare which she accepts works well elsewhere. She makes me want to stick "Fanfare For The Common Man" on the stereo. I always thought the one thing Americans did well, some might say to excess, was national pride. Well, then.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04181616393829854686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546980.post-4573060952207850202010-03-24T00:04:45.196-07:002010-03-24T00:04:45.196-07:00Correctly your article helped me terribly much in ...Correctly your article helped me terribly much in my college assignment. Hats high to you post, wish look forward for more interdependent articles soon as its united of my pick subject-matter to read.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546980.post-67253544913275503272010-03-19T22:52:14.638-07:002010-03-19T22:52:14.638-07:00Most of what you pay for when you go to a doctor a...Most of what you pay for when you go to a doctor anymore is his malpractice insurance premium because if something goes wrong, he's getting sued for millions. I've talked to many a physician who is either paying through the nose for it or is cutting back what he'll perform so he's not paying that much. The other half of what you're paying his part operating expenses and then his lifestyle and college loans that take 30yrs to pay off. Besides that, the cost of equipment (listen to the telethons at childrens' hospitals beg for $50,000 for a new dialysis machine sometime) is ridiculous. Besides that, you've got people who go in to the ER for the friggen sniffles which drives up costs as well -- oh yeah, and you have to pay their stockholders (for-profit hospitals). <br /><br />On the other set of claws, I've lived near housing projects, dealt with family members on both sides of my family and watched my husband's co-workers sit back and let the govt pay for whatever they can get away with. When Chewie tells them "hey, go to college, take a class, work some OT, do something because the company pays for it," and when I tell my family to get off their damned lazy asses and do something all we hear is "no." They have brains, we know they do, they're f--king lazy.The Rogue Kitchen Witchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00837268671847075409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546980.post-47638665057652738302010-03-19T01:17:24.919-07:002010-03-19T01:17:24.919-07:00I agree with Old Old Lady of the Hills. I think it...I agree with Old Old Lady of the Hills. I think its a gross misconception that those who are poor or unemployed or on welfare, like their situation and I'm always befuddled by those who use that argument, where is that information coming from? Has there been some survey done that says that the welfare poor are happy with their lot and government hand-outs? I'm for socialized medicine, though honestly if not that, than I would take affordable medicine. Look I don't need an insurance company if I could actually PAY the doctor, if my visit was under $100 instead of $500??Virginia Galhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15884790155886155406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546980.post-7189890467363566042010-03-16T21:02:58.947-07:002010-03-16T21:02:58.947-07:00I am really tired of everyone who is on Welfare an...I am really tired of everyone who is on Welfare and other Government HELP Programs being described as content and happy to collect whatever they can and "work, be damned". It is just not true. Most people WANT to work and have ambitions...THEY are in the Majority.<br /><br />As to Universal Healthcare....BRING IT ON! GIVE US A PUBLIC OPTION and a GOOD Healthcare Bill that will help EVERYONE. Yes, EVERYONE.<br />That is my opinion. We need to worry about Helping others and NOT where will this stop. People need coverage now!OldLady Of The Hillshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02458879772193114892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546980.post-52160289548087018432010-03-16T18:43:58.018-07:002010-03-16T18:43:58.018-07:00DA wrote it - click on the link near the top or th...DA wrote it - click on the link near the top or the DA (Ohio) link to the right. My wife wants the health care bill to pass.<br /><br />Somehow I agree with this one more than the one I wrote.JoeinVegashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05613274657685121948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546980.post-43821997217329906732010-03-16T17:46:28.166-07:002010-03-16T17:46:28.166-07:00so, Joe, who wrote this one for you, or are you no...so, Joe, who wrote this one for you, or are you not telling us something?...<br /><br />I gather your lovely wife wrote this lengthy article?Colleen Barnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06501980104933362752noreply@blogger.com