Recognizing what's broke just makes sense. Welfare, Medicare, Health Care, what ever it might be. How to fix it is more complicated.
I like your latest quote Dan:
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" The poor are to blame for being poor."
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A ckassic example of the arrogance of to many in America. There are many reasons for the poor being the poor and the people are not always at fault.
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Everyone gets 'covered' regardless of insurance or ability to pay
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That's simply not true, but oft repeated by the conservative side. It's similiar to the oft repeated mantra of the Republican party that Democrats will "ration" Health Care. Health Care is rationed all ready, wake up and smell the coffee! Your not getting the best treatment, or ANY treatment, for that cancer unless you got insurance. You WILL die sooner than the guy in the next bed who DOES have insurance!
Recently an oncology department in Las Vegas closed, they went broke, leaving a multitude of "poor" without continued chemotherapy. It's happening all over the country, right now. In Hawaii, again recently, health care was threatened/denied for a group on KIDNEY DIALYSIS! Were talking mere DAYS before certain death without a quick resolution to the financing problem. These are not isolated incidents, health care IS being rationed all the country. The Republican party is in full blown denial of the problem.