What Will It Be? Freedom or HillaryCare?

North Star Writers Group ^ | September 24, 2007 | David Karki

[ConservativeColumns]

This week, it seemed that we all stepped into a 1992 time warp: the Cowboys, 49ers and Packers leading their respective NFL divisions and Hillary Clinton proposing a government takeover of health care. I guess causing the Democrats to lose control of Congress once wasn't enough for her – she has to try to make it happen again.

It is a thinly disguised attempt to crush a health care system that, while far from perfect, is still the last, best one on Earth. (And if you doubt that appraisal, just ask all those Canadians and Europeans coming here for surgeries and procedures they cannot get at home where they have already made the mistake of trying government-controlled medicine.)

[stm]

One need only look to our northern neighbors or across the pond to see what socialized healthcare is like. No thanks.

[stm]

One need only look to our northern neighbors or across the pond to see what socialized healthcare is like. No thanks.

[Still Thinking]

It is a thinly disguised attempt to crush a health care system that, while far from perfect, is still the last, best one on Earth.

The reason it has the problems it does is because of government meddling in the distribution of health care and irrational tax policy on how it gets paid for. Typical government idiots. They start mucking around in a market that works, then use the fact that tax dollars are involved to start infringing on our liberties all over the place, and point to the problems THEY created as justification for MORE intrusion! If only a person could be shot for stupidity we'd have a lot less of this.

[ketsu]

Best health care I’ve ever had was in Japan. I wouldn’t mind copying the Japanese single payer system at all.

[Still Thinking]

How does it work?

[RC2]

Crushing our health care system isn’t Hillary’s goal. It’s the beginning of pure socialism that she’s after and attacking the health care system of this country is just the beginning. It’s amazing that socialized health care hasn’t worked in any country that its been tried, yet Hillary thinks she knows better than all of them. But again, it’s her start regarding socialism for our country.

[Still Thinking]

It's not that amazing. Hitlery thinks she knows more than a lot of people.

It actually doesn't even matter if she's right and it would make a better system. She has to take away my choices and infringe on my rights to get there and she has no Constitutional authority to do that.

[ketsu]

Japanese government pays 70%, you pay 30% with an upper bound on how much you pay per year. Covers dental, acupuncture, chiropractic etc... You choose your hospital and doctor. Ambulances are free. I never waited more that 20 min to see a doctor without an appointment and paid $20 deductible a visit on average.

[Still Thinking]

Sounds incredibly good for a government-run program. I still HSA’s or better yet, government completely OUT of the health care arena, both in terms of paying, and in terms of slanting the field with tax advantages for health care vs. other consumables.

[ketsu]

Yup. And it's one of the reasons that Japanese companies have a leg up on American ones. Japan can't compare for specialists, but by having the government shoulder the burden of insuring(while companies and individuals pay, it's multi-payer I was wrong to call it single) companies wouldn't have to pay nearly as much in bennies.

Come to think of it, maybe GM should relocate their factories to Japan ;)

[SnakeDoctor]

>> This week, it seemed that we all stepped into a 1992 time warp: the Cowboys, 49ers and Packers leading their respective NFL divisions and Hillary Clinton proposing a government takeover of health care.

I’d appreciate it if the Dallas Cowboys were left out of any further HillaryCare debates.

God might not appreciate this writer slandering His team.

:)

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[TheDon]

KatrinaCare, not HillaryCare!

[SMARTY]

Evita and the Democrats are banking on the Liberal record for choosing immediate, personal and temporary gains over everything else, even over common sense.

The country could go to h(&^ tomorrow, but they will have their ‘free health care’ and anything else that’s free, no matter the cost to others or to the long rung stability and security of the country.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Queen Hillary to be knows best!

[Rummyfan]

It is a thinly disguised attempt to crush a health care system that, while far from perfect, is still the last, best one on Earth. (And if you doubt that appraisal, just ask all those Canadians and Europeans coming here for surgeries and procedures they cannot get at home where they have already made the mistake of trying government-controlled medicine.)

It is an attempt to grow the power and reach of the federal government by a quantum leap.

[RetiredArmy]

Oh, my guess is 95% of Americans will vote for the free stuff since America has been dumbed down enough to expect something for nothing and expect everything to be free.

[ChurtleDawg]

I’ll take anything over HSAs. I have one now and I am still paying off a 1200$ deductible, plus it has pretty high premiums and co-pays. And it is an HMO, which is poor quality care.

[janereinheimer]

Oh, but wait — she said she looked at it more closely and fix all the problems of her original attempted blastoff of health care.

Yeah, right.

Isn’t it true, or just a rumor, that Canadians come to the U.S. for MRIs because they don’t have but a few north of the border?

If Hillary is elected — God forbid — then this health care plan is going to get to be pretty lean pretty quick and pretty soon it will resemble the pretty lean military that the Clinton White House engineered.

[janereinheimer]

Not this sounds hopeful.