Couples staying together because of poor economy

[Zoomie1980]

We cannot fix the health care crises by simply throwing money at it.

The solution, if we must have one, will be fully socialized medicine.

Any half socialist/half capitalist system we devise (like single payer universal, for example) will end up bankrupting this nation.

Prices for health care will rise until every extra dollar we throw at it is gone, and people will STILL not have decent health care.

Mark my words, fellow liberals, that so called solution will be disasterous if it is implemented.

I'll tell you what has to happen and none of us are going to like it..

1. HC providers will NOT make 20-20 times as much as the average working stiff.

2. Pharceutical companies will have to learn that they will NOT bea ble to rape people with new drugs no better than the old drugs, only still under patent protection.

3. People will NOT be kept alive far longer than they should, just because we can techically keep them alive for a few more months.

4. The government WILL interfer with our lives to prevent us from smoking, drinking, and all the other things we do that are killing us.

Now before some of you come in to chastize me for RECOMMENDING these things happen, understand that I am predicting they will happen, not suggesting they SHOULD happen.

But think about it.

What we have now won't last. Every year mo9re and more people, a higher percentage of the population will "fall though the cracks".

Eventually enough people will DEMAND a solution so they too can get health care.

Cap[italism will NOT have a solution, because capitalism is predicated on the assumption of an economy of scarcity.

So the people, and the government WILL create some kind of socialized system that is TRULY socialized.

Now we may do the single payer universal system first, and that WILL be disasterous in the medium run.

I give it ten years at best before the cost is so damned high that even liberals can see it's unsustainable.

THEN what choice will we have EXCEPT fully socialized medicine?

All the above presumes that america doesn't go completely bankrupt, first, of course.

Frnakly, I suspect this nation's government will be bnakrupt before it comes to that.

There will be NO universal Health Care proposal during Obama's first term. And if his team can't fairly quickly right the economy, he won't have a second. Either Sara or Hillary will take it away from him. If things don't turn around in two years, Congress is likely to have the single biggest incumbant dump since 1994. Not necessarily Dems replaced by Repubs, just large numbers of incumbants not even winning their primaries..

 

[DiveCon]

There will be NO universal Health Care proposal during Obama's first term. And if his team can't fairly quickly right the economy, he won't have a second. Either Sara or Hillary will take it away from him. If things don't turn around in two years, Congress is likely to have the single biggest incumbant dump since 1994. Not necessarily Dems replaced by Repubs, just large numbers of incumbants not even winning their primaries..

that would likely be a good thing, but i wont hold my breath waiting for it

 

[KittenKoder]

I thought it was about free sex

That to.

 

[Sidestreamer]

I'm beginning to think you have a slight degree of scepticism about the integrity of the current administration, Vermin.

Let's just say I think it cared more about Terri Schiavo than the lives of any Iraqi civilian.