I hear Republicans and Conservatives whine about proposed healthcare all the time. "Oooh, Obama's going to give us socialized healthcare!" "Oooh, we'll get crappy quality care!" "Ooooh, those poor, poor insurance companies won't be able to compete!" "Oooh, the expense of it!" What a load of crap. Part of the reason they lost every vote that wasn't a loyal Limbaugh listener is because they had no answer to this problem. The GOP was big on criticism and completely absent on solutions (on several issues).
1. "We would get poor quality healthcare". We already GET poor quality healthcare. Really, really poor quality healthcare. The spokesman for the ads against reform is Rick Scott, whose HCA/Columbia denied so many benefits to people his company covered, they evenetually went bankrupt from the lawsuits. Teens died. Elderly died. Everyone in between died or were permanently crippled due to the denial of benefits. This is the care we get now. And we spend more than anyone in the world for the really bad care. Obama and the Dems have the guts to try SOMETHING. The GOP offers nothing. Even he GOP candidate for president had no answer when asked in a Town Hall meeting "If the healthcare would be so bad, why have you chosen to stay on it fo the last 30 years? Obviously you could afford private care if you wanted it". He literally had NO answer. Just like his party. So we can get crappy healthcare for $7K a year or we can get it for significantly less. 2. "Private Insurance companies won't be able to compete with the government." So then, the government is SO efficient and provides SUCH a better product, that private insurers won't be able to compete? Kinda contradicts the case against government healthcare, doesn't it. And many compaines compete with the government and do just fine. Don't believe me? I'll Fed Ex you a memo on it. 3. We can't afford it? We can't afford to do nothing - which is the Republicans' answer. Healthcare is driving the American Citizens bankrupt. Two thirds of bankruptcies filed in 2008 were due to healthcare. What is more telling, 75% of those people HAD health insurance! These aren't people who shirked responsibility. They paid their extortive premiums. But the slimy bastards at insurance companies operate out of manuals which literally teach them how to deny claims. So people who would otherwise be paying taxes or employing others who pay taxes, aren't. I know this from personal experience. I had 9 recruiters and staff working for me when my brother got cancer. Even with his insurance, the costs ranged from $6 - $8K a month. I closed the business down and moved to Houston to take care of him. He finally passed late last year and that was the market I returned to (ugh). We were close to becoming one of those bankruptcies. Fortunately, 16 years of clients have us functioning again. We'll build it back up. But you are not going to convince me that the American health system is anything but an embarrassment. I have lived all over and I love this great nation of ours more than any other. But like many countries, we tend to think we're the best at EVERYTHING. We're not. Too many criminals go free. Too much of our tax dollars are wasted. And our healthcare sucks. While Uber-Conservatives bitch about how Canada has fewer MRI scanners, millions of our countrymen can't get a check-up or any of the most basic services. I'm looking forward to healthcare reform. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
