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Two new showrooms/office spaces, double height (135 sq m each with bath) for lease in upscale Campal/Miramar beach area, Panaji, Goa. Contact: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 23:41:32 -0400 From: MD <[email protected]> Link: http://www.examiner.com/x-22494-Cincinnati-Faith-Politics--Society-Examiner~y2009m9d3-Catholics-and-Universal-Health-Care Excerpt: These words can be quite a shock to a conservative Catholic who has been brought up on the belief that government assistance and handouts are not good for Americans. This is not something new. It was a shock when Franklin Roosevelt introduced Social Security payments, signing the Social Security Act on August 14, 1935. Conservatives shouted: ?This is socialism.? It was another shock to the conservative Catholic when, on July 30, 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law. Many conservatives yelled, ?Foul. This is socialistic.? Of course that was then and now is now, and the only yelling would be if some government official tried to take away either social security or Medicare/Medicaid. Mario responds: As with all government-run businesses and services, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are monumental failures from a financial point of view, and all projected to be defunct in a few years without massive changes and/or infusions of taxpayer money. Excerpt: It may take a bit of gulping, but we?ll get over it when we see our poorer neighbours getting health care they could never have afforded before. Mario responds: There are far better ways of helping those who need help using the efficiency of the private sector, which has been hampered by government regulators, than by letting the government destroy the health care system for 300 million people while pretending to help the 15 million hard core "uninsurables". The uninformed person who wrote this article also seems ignorant of the fact that the current proposals being discussed do not exempt Catholic hospitals and physicians from performing abortions and other contraceptive services they may object to for religious reasons.
