Posted on 06/03/2005 10:17:58 AM PDT by bagocookies
I can't take someone named Lance Dickie seriously either.
Under the current insurance system, we pretty much have this in place already. The only difference is there is not a single payer.
So your a good conservative that thinks nationalized (socialized) medicine would be the same disaster here that it's been in other countries, right?
I did not write the article.
Attendance at medical schools will drop like a rock...
I know that in Canada a lot of med students end up with really crummy locations where they have to start their practices...
ie...you go to school at UBC in Vancouver BC Canada, and the first place you may practice medicin is some podunk inuit village north of the 60...
not to mention that if you start your own practice you have to put up with the nurses unions etc...
My Physician (my best friends father) finally gave up his practice because he was sick of dealing with the government and the unions...
Don't forget that this is the same polling organization that ginned up FAKE polling results in support of Campaign Finance Reform!
Mark
Ping for your thoughts.
Give the guy a break. Granted, the post is pretty aggressive for a newbie, but unlike most trolls worthy of ZOT, at least he/she has stuck around to respond to comments.
Thus it will turn to the Federal Government, with its legendary efficiency and lack of bureaucracy, for a solution. ;)
What we have now through private insurance & medical companies is hardly perfect, but still far better than Hillarycare, which is how *any* "nationalized health care system" would ultimately end up.
#1 too many already sucking from the govt tit whether it be the illegals, the old, the poor or the government employed or retired....
#2 too much money for those of us who do buy health care for our families.....over $600 dollars a month for TWO people (mine is actually "free") is insane...
the unfairness of the present system will soon right itself because it has too.....
at the route of the problem is of course, the govt......a govt who lavishes wonderful health care on their chosen people, and sends the bill to people like me, who actually pay their way and don't have the govt freebies....
its all going to end....
something very wrong about people working in health care such as myself plus millions of others in non-profit private hosptitals.....physical therapist, pharmacist, aides,etc.....NOT having medical retirement benefits at all......
Please answer my question (I know who wrote the article newbie).
Thanks. I think this is a topic that needs discussion. Even if you disagree with a premise, it does churn out responses that add to the discussion.
of couse.
"What would be wrong with some of opt-in system?"
Hillary and other liberals don't see any such thing. For them, we are all in the same village, and we all should be under the same system.
As someone else on FR said, "Scratch a liberal, uncover a fascist".
Besides, they won't be able to fund it unless everyone is in it. They will have to be Robin Hood and take from the rich to fund it.
Sounds painful.
If you expect benefits, get a job that offers them.
I am sure everyone can hardly wait for our own version of the VA hospital system.
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