There are several federal/state programs already in place that address your point and more; to provide medical care for the poor, the old, and the crumbcrunchers:
Medicaid- A program, funded by the federal and state governments, which pays for medical care for those who can't afford it. Medicare - A federal program that pays for certain health care expenses for people aged 65 or older. Enrolled individuals must pay deductibles and co-payments, but much of their medical costs are covered by the program. SCHIP - Federally funded program to provide health insurance to families with children. "Healthcare is a right" is a tenant of the socialists' agenda. No where in the Bill of Rights nor the accompanying 17 Amendments will you find "Healthcare as a right". And to that point; libertarians, conservatives, and even some RINO's will have a hard time uniting under that banner. The founders did not make healthcare a right. Alexander Tyler was right; a democracy cannot sustain itself and will collapse when voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury... :) Jarrad On Oct 29, 2008, at 1:01 AM, clowkun wrote: > > >> How would you solve our similar problems, so that those both >> socialist >> (leaning) and libertarians are happy? >> >> Health Care is a good place to start :) > > > To be quite honest I don't really have the answer to that question. My > best solution would be to start at the beginning to design a new > health care system that would still leave privatized medical services > open for those who could afford it and also provide some form of > emergency and long-term plans for those who could not afford it. To go > back to my earlier statement, for us to be united on the issue we need > to make a stand and have one united front on the issue as far as our > ultimate common goal. Such as "healthcare for American citizens is a > right, because a healthy America is a better America," something like > that. Rally the nation behind that slogan and start to implement a > system, very slowly and carefully mind you, over a 7 to 10 year period > that would help us accomplish this goal. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Politically Opinionated Outspoken People Expounding Religion" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pooper?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
