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Stop socialized healthcare??? Hogwash.
Here is a good example of what is actually generating the backlash over government health care. The popular site may be somewhat overloaded by truth-seekers.
Private healthcare insurance currently has about a 20% overhead administration cost where Medicare only has about 3%. As a rule, US government run programs are far more efficient than private counterparts, like it or not. For one thing, they don't have wallstreet stockholder leaches to pay ...and another, no huge executive salary/bonus burdens. Most government workers don't get paid as much as the private sector. Of course there is a lot of corporate crying, wringing of hands and the usual false scare propoganda, as large insurance corporations contemplate reduced profiteering.
From the patients point of view, it is better to have a government bureaucrat between you and your doctor than a corporate bureaucrat in the way. The government guy works for you ...the corporate guy works for stockholders and himself. We are the government, we control it, but we can't vote corporate crooks out. Just common sense. Geez.
Imagine what it would cost if police protection was all private ...or fire protection ...or military. Way more than we could ever dream. But then private US health care now cost way more than we ever dreamed too. And if any of you think your current health plan is spending their time thinking up ways to cover you better and cheaper next year, think again.
Time for US government to govern. America sure as hell wasn't built on capitalism. And it sure as hell wasn't built on socialism. It was built with a healthy balance of the two ...and the well-funded capitalists are getting a little heavy and causing her to list.
Time to rise up alright, start over. Meet the challenge with a level head. There is nothing wrong with overgrown arrogant corporations ...they just need a good shellacking once in a while. It'll be good for America in the long run.
Wes
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