My, let me repeat slowly... capitalist countries can have socialized programs... and remain capitalist. Look around.
Marcio -----Original Message----- >From: Jeff Morris <[email protected]> >Sent: Sep 7, 2009 8:26 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [CGUYS] Intensive care unit > >For you to say that the health care in Cuba is better than the United States >may be the dumbest statement I have ever heard. > >Given the choice...you mean to tell me that you would fly to Cuba to have open >heart surgery instead of having it done by a specialist here? > >You answered no...I'm certain...which means then, that health care is NOT >better in Cuba. > >You are free to move to Cuba, collect your $3 a month wage and enjoy that >health care. > >Do not confuse health care costs with health care. There is a world of >difference between the two. Socializing our health care system will not only >hurt our economy...but it will ruin medicine in the United States. > >You can do some things to fix the cost...without changing the entire system. > > >85% of the population is perfectly happy with their health care. So you want >to wreck what the 85% enjoy so that the 15% get free health care coverage? >That's like having 85% of a restaraunt's clientele perfectly happy with the >food at a given restaurant...but in order to please the other 15%, we bulldoze >the building. Makes just as much sense as bulldozing the current system to >satisfy the few, and to satisfy the socialists (Obama, Reid, Pelosi) who want >more and more government control over every facet of our lives. > >Expand medicare to cover those who legitimately cannot afford health care. >I'm not talking about those who whine that they can't afford insurance but >have two cars, a house they can't afford, cell phones, top tier cable tv and >other luxuries. > >How about if we actually let the free market work for insurance like it does >almost every other industry. There are only so many companies I am allowed to >buy insurance from. Those are federal regulations and state regulations, and >it benefits the insurance company ensuring them of a monopoly of sorts. Let >me buy my health insurance anywhere I want - provided they meet federal >regulations. That will increase choice of product dramatically, which will >increase competition, which will drive down prices and improve service. The >free markets have NOT been tried with insurance. > >Loser pays as part of Tort reform. If you file a bogus lawsuit and lose, you >pay the cost of the legal fees for the doctor or pharmacuetical company you >just sued. That would just about put an end to the frivelous and phony >lawsuits. Doctors and drug companies and anybody else who can be sued pay >huge, huge fees for insurance...which of course if passed along to the >consumer. Won't happen though. Why? The majority of congress are lawyers. > >No...there are plenty of things that can be done besides turning us into a >socialist country. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
