Sorry, but the commercial is very one sided and not very well researched.

At the end it should state: "Brought to you by the INSURANCE companies lobby effort consortium".

We need this to make change. No one is saying this is THE answer, but rather a STEP toward universal health care. We have to be willing to take the first step whether the situation is perfect or not. It will evolve from there. The current system will crumble into the complete failure it nearly is already anyway.

The corporate insurance greed has gone far enough. The first step is to go around this issue and then on from there.

Originally posted by Spirit Warrior 11:11
Sorry, but the commercial is very one sided and not very well researched.

At the end it should state: "Brought to you by the INSURANCE companies lobby effort consortium".

We need this to make change. No one is saying this is THE answer, but rather a STEP toward universal health care. We have to be willing to take the first step whether the situation is perfect or not. It will evolve from there. The current system will crumble into the complete failure it nearly is already anyway.

The corporate insurance greed has gone far enough. The first step is to go around this issue and then on from there.

Competition is the key, not government intervention.

Originally posted by Spirit Warrior 11:11
Sorry, but the commercial is very one sided and not very well researched.

At the end it should state: "Brought to you by the INSURANCE companies lobby effort consortium".

We need this to make change. No one is saying this is THE answer, but rather a STEP toward universal health care. We have to be willing to take the first step whether the situation is perfect or not. It will evolve from there. The current system will crumble into the complete failure it nearly is already anyway.

The corporate insurance greed has gone far enough. The first step is to go around this issue and then on from there.

There is a battle being fought right now. Millions of dollars are being spent daily on lobbying. The status quo is in danger and monopolies are being threatened. Be prepared for it to get worse.

I think the corporations are fighting back, they make millions if not billions from insurance. You need to have a system which caters for everyone not just those who have insurance.

You try to knock down the English NHS but what you fail to see is that the government have run it incorrectly and not pouring as much money into it as it needs. But on the flip side even though beds are stretched and nurses/doctors work long shift like any hospital, it caters for everyone the poor and the rich.

If you wish to pay for a service then we have alternatives like BUPA which many business cover for employee's or you can pay insurance for this.




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I was in the U.S. for business the other day and i was with very well educated people. That only made their naiveté all that more frightening. I was asked about my healthcare system non-stop. They could not understand the concept that if the CEO of a company broke his arm and if a hobo cut his arm off the hobo would be seen first. We have no system that creates "death panel" or all those ludicrous lies. If a HUMAN walks in to an ER with more extensive injuries than you, you wait. Yes i have had to wait in the ER for 6 hours to get stitches on a couple of occasions, but its not like i was dying people who needed it more went first.
The rest of the world is watching you (America) right now and my best guesstimate is 90% of us know what is right, its socialized health care. You (again Americans) have let the globe down alot of recent. I believe when bush was elected to his second term Englands Headlines had "How can (whatever the population was at the time) be so dumb?"
We all used to gauge you guys as the one a few steps ahead, were starting to see you as the ones behind. If somehow this fails to go through and Americans veto this bill you will loose even more respect in the global community, and you ability to press you beliefs on other nations under the ruse of humanitarianism will no longer work. Humanity starts at home.
I despise how preachy this is for the record, the lies i hear about this stuff brings it out of me.

My hope is that if enough Canadians say the same thing it will get through to some of those blinded by their own hatred towards "the other side":

Our health care system is very good. The only problems I have seen have come about due to NAFTA and the push to 'harmonize' our system with the states.

Every Canadian can go to the hospital. If you get in an accident an ambulance will come, they don't ask for your medical information before they treat you. They treat you, then they ask for it. If you don't have it, well guess what, they still get paid so that is not what matters.

Yes, our government is corrupt and it is owned by the same money interests as you, but even we get proper health care. Geez you guys, can't you put down your ridiculous 'right hand slapping the left hand slapping the right hand' rhetoric for just one minute and see that ALL of your politicians are on the same side?

They have billed you for TRILLIONS of dollars for war (killing people) and bailing out the banks (profiting a bunch of criminals). But dare to suggest that everyone will get health care and you are concerned about having to foot the bill?

That ad might as well have been a cartoon. I fear that the majority of you can't even see that. If that is the case then I'm sorry. Rather than help people rally together to save your nation, this level of discourse will only speed the collapse.

All this commercial said was, hey if you can't afford it, you die.

Living in Canada with socialized medicine is the way to go. ( I lived in Califorina for 30+ years.) I am tired of hiring that Canada and Great Britain have the worst health care, and lines to wait in, its (B... S...). I have friends and family that have never had to wait for anything and have recieved surgery with in a few days. Obamas health care plan is just a joke. Just another plan for the rich to steal from the poor.

When I see words like "competition" with regards to health care I think.

I ultimately conclude that it makes no sense that there is any sort of "battle" or "competition" or "profit" that makes sense when we talk about the preservation of human life.

In my mind, ALL healthcare should be NON-PROFIT. This would include drugs as well as treatment.

It is clearly difficult to try to incorporate a non-profit entity into a society that thrives or dies based on money.

Two things that should be prevalent, completely transparent, available to EVERYONE and not for profit within any successful society are health care and higher-education.

Only elitist groups/families can afford to attend a higher-education facility to acquire the knowledge to be a health care professional. Grants and loans really only scratch the surface if we look at who ultimately receives them.

I'm not even going to try to detail the procedures that would be necessary to accomplish this but I can assure you that if someone were to outline such a plan that red flags would go up and claims of "socialism" would reign.

Would it be so bad if EVERYONE had virtually EVERYTHING that they could realistically want within a society? I'm not referring to ONE bottle of Vodka per week and ONE small car per family and ONE television per houshold etc. I'm talking about any and all reasonable comforts and any and all reasonable items to please the masses.

Canada - where I live - has the small population and the vast natural resources to EASILY accomplish this. The United States COULD acquire the energies and natural resources necessary to please EVERYONE with the right social plan.

A START to this would be NON-PROFIT health care and education! Lets start with healthcare since this is already an issue that seems to be pretty hard to deal with.

Currently it is ALL about MONEY. It should be ALL about the well being of EVERY citizen of your society!

I want to boycott ABC and NBC, but seriously, who still watches them? I think they both died out in the late 90s.

Semantics can get in the way of a word! Many are conditioned to believe a word has a negative meaning because it is often used incorrectly.

"Nice" used to mean "a sleazy woman."

I looked up "socialism" and I don't see a real problem with its application to a good and PROFITABLE society.

How about "utopian socialism." I found this meaning:

-noun (sometimes initial capital letter) an economic system based on the premise that if capital voluntarily surrendered its ownership of the means of production to the state or the workers, unemployment and poverty would be abolished.

We clearly see a very few "rich" individuals with capital they couldn't possibly spend in 100 lifetimes. We clearly see people starving and dying because they don't have any - or enough - money.

Somewhere in between seems very logical and right.

With capitalism, we are told that we all have a chance depending on how we apply ourselves. This is actually NOT TRUE. There are obstacles. It is OFTEN NOT that an individual doesn't wish to improve themselves and/or their education - it is that they simply CANNOT.

Capitalism is NOT working. People who don't lift a finger to produce or manufacture or contribute ANYTHING at all to their society are "rolling in dough" by GAMBLING - and SPECULATING and often MANIPULATING the so called "FREE MARKET" to make riches.

If everyone involved with manufacturing an item or product - and ONLY everyone DIRECTLY involved with the procurement of such an item or product were "rewarded" or involved with "profit" or "income" sharing, this would filter out the LEECHES who provide absolutely NO ASSISTANCE whatsoever.

Once you see this, you see that there is a very severe lack of logic involved with accepting that NON-CONTRIBUTORS benefit the most from the procurement of a product, idea or service.




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