GOP health strategy: call anything "Government Takeover"


	GOP health strategy: call anything "Government Takeover"

masbury

8-13-2009 11:45 AM

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masbury says:

You'll notice the mobs aren't howling about a getting an option to choose their own insurance from a public plan; they've been fooled into thinking talking with your doctor about a living will is government-sponsored euthanasia. The strategy from the outset has been, whatever the President proposes, call it Government Takeover, scare people to death, and stall until people are worried badly enough that all that can pass is a plan to force people to become customers of Big Insurance.

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8-14-2009 6:11 AM

darkeforce

What the hell is so wrong with a government takeover? Medicare is the single most popular Government program, and barring ignorant doctors who refuse to take it because of lying rumours, and scumbags taking advantage of it, it is the best-running government program out there; working much better and cheaper than commercial healthcare insurance.

19 out of twenty G20 nations can't be wrong; they have Universal, government-run healthcare, and they're all in the top 20 rated healthcare systems in the world. And despite what morons like Glen Beck might try to tell you, America DOES NOT have the best healthcare system in the world. It has the 37th best healthcare system, ranking dow...

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