You didn't provide detailed analysis, you provided right wing character assassination of the President of the United States...
There is nothing normal about paranoia...it's an affliction
My 'for profit rant' about the built in conflict created in the insurance model is indisputable to a thinking person. Your 'profit motive drives innovation and quality in a competitive market' just reinforces my 'rant'...in the for profit insurance business ...innovation is coming up with new ways to ration and deny coverage and the quality gained is for the CEO's and employed deniers.
Think about it man...it's a reverse competitive model...
We're not selling refrigerators, this is about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
In the 'competitive market' you talk about the consumer has the option to walk away and invest his money elsewhere. In health insurance, the consumer is investing more than just his money. He is investing his health, his savings, his house and his life...and the provider has the motive to fire the customer.
The health care bill that came out of the Senate is a direct reflection on the hooks the corporate cartels have into Washington. They spent 1.4 million dollars a day standing with the Republicans and providing them ammo. If you support Republicans, then you support the corporate cartels...there is no difference. Unfortunately enough 'blue dog' Democrats are just Republicans in disguise...
It is a shame what this country has come to...I suggest you look at what the Republican party used to stand for and where they are now...it is NOT mainstream or centrist...it is far right authoritarianism and radical...that is what Goldwater Republicans say, not just me...
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
Albert Camus
Oh... my bad. See, I thought you were asking for
my analysis. I didn't realize you were looking for some pundit to agree with you. Being a "thinking person", I never need my opinion handed to me, so it didn't occur to me that you might ask me to provide someone else's analysis.
Here's what you can do... Put the name of your favorite leftwing zealot into your google bar. Alot of them will have their own website. When you get to it, you'll usually find a "contact us" tab. Click on it.. and then do your thing. I don't think I'd recommend people like Keith Obermann or Chris Matthews. Not that they wouldn't agree with you, but Olbermann's pretty busy being a full-time public asshole, and Matthews would have to put down his Barack Obama Blow-up Doll for long enough to respond. Look for some socialist wingers further down the pecking order. You'll have a better chance of getting an agreeable response.
Meanwhile... understand this. I don't owe you or anyone else more than the duty of my own citizenship. And THAT is to refrain from impeding upon the unalienable rights of my fellow citizen as he should refrain from impeding mine. I don't owe you food, shelter, healthcare, or the time of day. And I will resist any efforts by you and your collectivist ilk to impede
my unalienable rights. Every dollar you take from me is bread out of my own child's mouth, an educational dollar I don't have to pay for his college or his care. And if you think for one measly minute that I give a rat's ass about YOUR wants and needs while my child's future is being spent... think again. Compassion starts at my own table with my own family.
Your argument that non-profit health insurance is a better standard, is not supported by fact or reason. It's nonsensical to believe that competitive insurance businesses will simply spring up out of nowhere without a profit motive. Altruism doesn't feed the bulldog. And it doesn't feed families. Smart people will simply put their efforts into more lucrative endeavors.
Government money is NOT free. It comes from the sweat and labor of real, live citizens. And without Constitutional authority, you have nothing to compel me save force at the point of a gun. And you can bet your bottom dollar, you'll have a tiger by the tail at that point.
Well, we're back to where we started... thank you for proving me right...but I wasn't aware you got to where you are ALL BY YOURSELF...WOW, talk about narcissism
'Well in this debate I must admit you have a clear advantage...I call it the utopian right wing solution...there is never any cost in human capital in right wing solutions...everyone would agree with you scum bags if men women and children and the aged would evaporate.'
Here's what you can do... Put the name of your favorite leftwing zealot into your google bar. Alot of them will have their own website.
OK, let's start with this leftwing zealot ...
"The legitimate object of Government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do, for themselves in their separate and individual capacities. But in all that people can individually do as well for themselves, Government ought not to interfere."
President Abraham Lincoln
And this one...
"In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with people's money, or their economy, or their form of government, be conservative."
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
How about this party...
Republican Party Platform of 1956
August 20, 1956
Labor
Under the Republican Administration, as our country has prospered, so have its people. This is as it should be, for as President Eisenhower said: "Labor is the United States. The men and women, who with their minds, their hearts and hands, create the wealth that is shared in this country—they are America."
The Eisenhower Administration has brought to our people the highest employment, the highest wages and the highest standard of living ever enjoyed by any nation. Today there are nearly 67 million men and women at work in the United States, 4 million more than in 1952. Wages have increased substantially over the past 3 1/2 years; but, more important, the American wage earner today can buy more than ever before for himself and his family because his pay check has not been eaten away by rising taxes and soaring prices.
The record of performance of the Republican Administration on behalf of our working men and women goes still further. The Federal minimum wage has been raised for more than 2 million workers. Social Security has been extended to an additional 10 million workers and the benefits raised for 6 1/2 million. The protection of unemployment insurance has been brought to 4 million additional workers. There have been increased workmen's compensation benefits for longshoremen and harbor workers, increased retirement benefits for railroad employees, and wage increases and improved welfare and pension plans for federal employees.
In addition, the Eisenhower Administration has enforced more vigorously and effectively than ever before, the laws which protect the working standards of our people.
Workers have benefited by the progress which has been made in carrying out the programs and principles set forth in the 1952 Republican platform. All workers have gained and unions have grown in strength and responsibility, and have increased their membership by 2 millions.
Furthermore, the process of free collective bargaining has been strengthened by the insistence of this Administration that labor and management settle their differences at the bargaining table without the intervention of the Government. This policy has brought to our country an unprecedented period of labor-management peace and understanding.
We applaud the effective, unhindered, collective bargaining which brought an early end to the 1956 steel strike, in contrast to the six months' upheaval, Presidential seizure of the steel industry and ultimate Supreme Court intervention under the last Democrat Administration.
The Eisenhower Administration will continue to fight for dynamic and progressive programs which, among other things, will:
Stimulate improved job safety of our workers, through assistance to the States, employees and employers;
Continue and further perfect its programs of assistance to the millions of workers with special employment problems, such as older workers, handicapped workers, members of minority groups, and migratory workers;
Strengthen and improve the Federal-State Employment Service and improve the effectiveness of the unemployment insurance system;
Protect by law, the assets of employee welfare and benefit plans so that workers who are the beneficiaries can be assured of their rightful benefits;
Assure equal pay for equal work regardless of Sex;
Clarify and strengthen the eight-hour laws for the benefit of workers who are subject to federal wage standards on Federal and Federally-assisted construction, and maintain and continue the vigorous administration of the Federal prevailing minimum wage law for public supply contracts;
Extend the protection of the Federal minimum wage laws to as many more workers as is possible and practicable;
Continue to fight for the elimination of discrimination in employment because of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry or sex;
Provide assistance to improve the economic conditions of areas faced with persistent and substantial unemployment;
Revise and improve the Taft-Hartley Act so as to protect more effectively the rights of labor unions, management, the individual worker, and the public. The protection of the right of workers to organize into unions and to bargain collectively is the firm and permanent policy of the Eisenhower Administration. In 1954, 1955 and again in 1956, President Eisenhower recommended constructive amendments to this Act. The Democrats in Congress have consistently blocked these needed changes by parliamentary maneuvers. The Republican Party pledges itself to overhaul and improve the Taft-Hartley Act along the lines of these recommendations.
Health, Education and Welfare
The Republican Party believes that the physical, mental, and spiritual well-being of the people is as important as their economic health. It will continue to support this conviction with vigorous action.
Republican action created the Department of Health, Education and Welfare as the first new Federal department in 40 years, to raise the continuing consideration of these problems for the first time to the highest council of Government, the President's Cabinet.
Through the White House Conference on Education, our Republican Administration initiated the most comprehensive Community-State-Federal attempt ever made to solve the pressing problems of primary and secondary education.
Four thousand communities, studying their school populations and their physical and financial resources, encouraged our Republican Administration to urge a five-year program of Federal assistance in building schools to relieve a critical classroom shortage.
The Republican Party will renew its efforts to enact a program based on sound principles of need and designed to encourage increased state and local efforts to build more classrooms.
Our Administration also proposed for the first time in history, a thorough nation-wide analysis of rapidly growing problems in education beyond the high schools.
The Republican Party is determined to press all such actions that will help insure that every child has the educational opportunity to advance to his own greatest capacity.
We have fully resolved to continue our steady gains in man's unending struggle against disease and disability.
We have supported the distribution of free vaccine to protect millions of children against dreaded polio.
Republican leadership has enlarged Federal assistance for construction of hospitals, emphasizing low-cost care of chronic diseases and the special problems of older persons, and increased Federal aid for medical care of the needy.
We have asked the largest increase in research funds ever sought in one year to intensify attacks on cancer, mental illness, heart disease and other dread diseases.
We demand once again, despite the reluctance of the Democrat 84th Congress, Federal assistance to help build facilities to train more physicians and scientists.
We have encouraged a notable expansion and improvement of voluntary health insurance, and urge that reinsurance and pooling arrangements be authorized to speed this progress.
We have strengthened the Food and Drug Administration, and we have increased the vocational rehabilitation program to enable a larger number of the disabled to return to satisfying activity.
We have supported measures that have made more housing available than ever before in history, reduced urban slums in local-federal partnership, stimulated record home ownership, and authorized additional low-rent public housing.
We initiated the first flood insurance program in history under Government sponsorship in cooperation with private enterprise.
We shall continue to seek extension and perfection of a sound social security system.
We pledge close cooperation with State, local and private agencies to reduce the ghastly toll of fatalities on the Nation's highways
