It depends! Do you understand how health works, do you have mental disabilities hindering you understanding. Any way we are talking mainly a financing system. All the understanding of my needs in the world don’t mean diddleysquat if I don’t have the financial means to meet them!Why, yes it is. Do I wish to control my own health needs? Or should I trust our benevolent government?Gee, THAT’S a tough one.
Then YOU should have some means to additional assistance. But don’t lump everybody into this bandwagon, for it will cause the whole ship to sink.
Baloney. If done right it will do just fine. Depending on which parts of health care one is talking , more people are in my boat than your boat. With healthcare everyone should just be equiled out and on the same playing field. To do anything else would be placing the right to live of person more impartant than another.
That’s what we will all be eating if this bill passes.
Now THAT’S baloney. When you started this thread, we could only assume you were for the healtcare that either the house or the Senate had passed. The prevailing public opinion was against that.
Then Congress should be on it. I don’t see them lining up to be on it.
How about my choice to have the healthcare plan that I’d like. I see that as a right of mine that you are trying to deny.
So you have more rights than me?
What makes you think I said that? Do I have more rights than you if I happen to be able to afford better healthcare? Even the most socialist countries allow their people to travel to other countries to get medical treatment. It’s not that I have more rights? Its simply that I can afford it.
It just feels to me like I’m in a Lottery situation. Not the lotto, the short story that involves a yearly stoning.
Why dont you just move to Canada? Poland? Russia? Since people like you are so sacraficed in the free market?
The catholic church…
I cannot move, my debt is too high. To be able to move out of the US, you must have basically no debts, or you will be deported.
The church was why I was mutilated upon my birth. Doctors didn’t think it necessary, but the church folks my parents talked to seem to think it was necessary. Some of my medical problems are directly tied to the advice given to my family by the church.
So, you think everyone in the church is bad because of what a select few and your parents did you?
Yes and no. The situation is much more complex and distressing. Something I have been in therapy for, for over a decade. I do not really like discussing it at all, let alone in public
No mre or less than it is stealing for the fire departement to put out your house fire, or when the police come to your house for a domestic call, no more or less than if you are accused of a crime you get a defense attorney for free. If you want living in society to be free then be a hirmit in a cave.
Can you please explain how you feel this is the same? The fire department and the police are there to protect and to serve. Since the time of Rome, people have paid taxes to have services such as this, even if these services are never actually required. At the same time, doctors have always been paid only for the services that they provide by the people that they provide them to.
You get billed for the fire department’s aid.
Has this always been true? And is this a national trend or do local communities determine whether this happens?
Doctors have to pay for tons more education than the fire depts., police, etc. If they need to go into “social services” they wont be able to pay back their education loans. So the next generation would have very few doctors because who would sign up to be one? Or should the govt (taxpayers) pick up the tab for their education too?