Senate Health Care Bill

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Originally Posted by Excaliber

Fact is, not all Americans have access to life saving medicine or medical care.

Medicaid is the joint federal-state health care program for the poor--and it covers over 50 million people in the US. The benefits under Medicaid are very robust. Let's be clear--the poorest people in the country have access to very good care under the Medicaid program.

There are millions of homeless people in the US, as well. Would you like to buy them all houses? It's a grandiose idea, but it's not feasible.

Let's make no mistake about it, life can be very rough, and a lot of people have crappy lives. And we should all try to assist people who need help.

However, we cannot afford to pay for more and more of these types of social programs--it's got to stop somewhere. We are already doing irreparable harm to our country's future by running record deficits, quickly bankrupting our country, and forever indebting ourselves to the Chinese government.

Why do you think the Chinese government was lecturing Obama on fiscal responsibility?