Government health insurance

[DavidS]

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But America performs best when called to its biggest tasks. It can truly be said that only in America could a task so tremendous be achieved so quickly, and achieved not by regimentation, but through the effort and ingenuity of a free people, working in a free system.

Turning now to the rest of the agenda for XXXX, the time is at hand this year to bring comprehensive, high quality health care within the reach of every American. I shall propose a sweeping new program that will assure comprehensive health insurance protection to millions of Americans who cannot now obtain it or afford it, with vastly improved protection against catastrophic illnesses. This will be a plan that maintains the high standards of quality in America's health care. And it will not require additional taxes.

Now, I recognize that other plans have been put forward that would cost $80 billion or even $100 billion and that would put our whole health care system under the heavy hand of the Federal Government. This is the wrong approach. This has been tried abroad, and it has failed. It is not the way we do things here in America. This kind of plan would threaten the quality of care provided by our whole health care system. The right way is one that builds on the strengths of the present system and one that does not destroy those strengths, one based on partnership, not paternalism. Most important of all, let us keep this as the guiding principle of our health programs. Government has a great role to play, but we must always make sure that our doctors will be working for their patients and not for the Federal Government.

As we create more jobs, as we build a better health care system, as we improve our education, as we develop new sources of energy, as we provide more abundantly for the elderly and the poor, as we strengthen the system of private enterprise that produces our prosperity as we do all of this and even more, we solidify those essential bonds that hold us together as a nation.

Can anyone name who gave this speech, what the occasion was, what century this was, what the year was and what political party this person belonged to without researching it on the internet? I'll give you a hint, this person is no longer alive.

 

[CrimsonWhite]

Nixon. State of the Union. 1974?

What do i win?

 

[DiveCon]

Nixon. State of the Union. 1974?

What do i win?

lol killjoy

 

[DiveCon]

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Can anyone name who gave this speech, what the occasion was, what century this was, what the year was and what political party this person belonged to without researching it on the internet? I'll give you a hint, this person is no longer alive.

why didnt you bold THIS

as we strengthen the system of private enterprise that produces our prosperity

 

[elvis]

why didnt you bold THIS

He doesn't believe in that part.

 

[DiveCon]

He doesn't believe in that part.

clearly

 

[editec]

Socialized payments into a privatized health care system will be disasterous.

Hell, it's already disasterous as can be evidenced by the rising percent of the GDP that is going into the health care system since the introduction of medicade.

Either socialize it entirely, or forget about fixing it.

Health care does not play by the same supply/demand laws that most other commodities do, folks.

If we keep kidding ourselves about how medical economics is exactly like all other commodities' economics, we're going to bankrupt ourselves trying to be fair.

There is no satiation point in medicine because NOBODY WANTS TO DIE.

 

[sparky]

Nixon...that that....Liberal!

 

[DavidS]

Nixon. State of the Union. 1974?

What do i win?

Green rep work ok? Red rep for everyone else.