deanrd posted in another thread that
GOP oppose Education and Health Care.
If you are GOP will you please vote in the
attached poll, what are you really against?
Education and Health Care?
or
"Federal centralized control" of these
instead of managing choices democratically
by people and states more effectively?
Can we settle this once and for all
what it is that Conservatives/GOP are opposed to?
Thanks!
Some things need to be either socialized or more heavily regulated. Or have a public option for poor or cheap young people
By that logic why wouldn't the government just buy every adult American a brand new electric car every year? If subsidizing things is so great , why stop there? Government TVs..........
Because silly you don't die if you don't have car.
How about this analogy. We should have public transportation if too many Americans can't afford a car. So consider socialized medicine the bus of healthcare. You and I of course would have cadillac plans.
Dear
sealybobo
Putting aside the issue that "public transportation" also gets ruined and corrupted by special interests mucking with govt funding and votes on projects manipulated (similar to corporate insurance interests that mucked up the ACA to get it passed, and similar to mucked up public housing, prisons and schools over govt contract money abused and hard to check), aside from that mess:
1. There is a HUGE difference between public transportation by city, county, and state level decisions vs. Federalized health care regs pushed nationally through Congress without direct vote or voice by the people affected. How can you compare the two??
2. As for public infrastructure that is national policy, such as interstate hwys beyond state jurisdictions, these involve govt regulations on safety of roads. With medical care the public does agree to authorize govt to regulate and license professional medical services and facilities which is similar to regulating hwy safety, including state regs on car insurance.
But this is nowhere near the level of requiring people to register for Federalized insurance.
Lastly, just because people agree to vote on funding public transportation does not require us to agree to treat health care the same way. In cases I've seen, people did NOT even agree to fund plans for public transportation for much the same reasons as opposing Federalized health care mandates -- the politics and private interests mucked up the process and projects so taxpayers get stuck funding plans not authorized by agreement just because majority rule was reached.
If we cannot even get public housing done right through govt, nor prevent bureaucratic waste and disasters with public transportation and or public schools, why would you use these bad examples to argue for Federalized public health care mandated against the wishes and beliefs of people who prefer other options?
If anything what you bring up could better be used to argue Against this approach not for it!
Sorry but I will stick with my suggestion of letting taxpayers elect which system they want to manage their health care and social benefits through so they always have direct democratic choice in sensitive decisions affecting them which govt isn't designed to regulate for Mass populations of diverse people, beliefs and needs unique to each.
How can you possibly compare the intricate personal choices in public health care, unique to each person of different beliefs, to public transportation that doesn't bring up these levels. ?????