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Health Care Reform
It appears that today might be the end of a very long road to health care reform. There's been a lot of debate on the subject really leading back before the election. The mainstream sounds like an echo chamber, so I'm hoping you guys have better insight. Will this bill do what the administration claims to do, or is it as bad for the future of America as Fox says?
BTW, I've seen thousands of comment trolls, but I think this is the first story submission troll I've seen.
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We have nothing to fear but Fox itself.
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If the health care reform plan goes through then it signals the end of civilization as you know. Just look at where I am from, Canada, where we introduced universal health care in 1962. Since then, we've been living in barbaric fiefdoms, the likes of which have not been seen outside of the Hyborian kingdom.
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obligatory welfare joke:
A guy walks into the local welfare office, marches straight up to the counter and says, "Hi . . . You know, I just HATE drawing welfare. I'd really rather have a job".
The social worker behind the counter says, "Your timing is excellent. We just got a job opening from a very wealthy old man who wants a chauffeur/bodyguard for his nymphomaniac daughter. You'll have to drive
around in his Mercedes, but he'll supply all of your clothes. Because of the long hours, meals will be provided. You'll be expected to escort her on her overseas holiday trips. You'll have a two-bedroom apartment above the garage. The starting salary is $200,000 a year".
The guy says, "You're bullshitting me!"
The social worker says, "Yeah, well, you started it."
See: Comedy Central.
As a Brit, the "quality" of TV news in the US depresses me no end; I'm amazed that anyone has been able to hold even vaguely rational debates about the Healthcare reform bill given the utter bollocks spewing from all sides of the media. At least The Daily Show doesn't pretend to be a serious news organisation.
The only conclusion I can draw from the coverage I've seen is that the Healthcare reform bill will either cure cancer or mandate the killing of anyone over 40, it could go either way.
Brain-washing and indoctrination.
Listen. Just because the person you meet and discuss intimate details with at the "doctor's" office is wearing a lab coat and a stethescope, it doesn't mean he or she is a doctor. They are actually just civil servants who have hidden microphones and very discrete ear pieces, that allows what you're telling them to be heard by a 13-person death-panel, who will then instruct the "doctor" what to do.
The death-panel consists of:
This is how socialized "medicine" works. The only medicine involved with it, is making sure your body is sold off in parts to raise money for the party leaders! WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ROSES! Actually, those aren't roses but the perfumes used to cover up the stench of rotting corpses in the streets.
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Hey! I walk in on my own accord. Nobody needs to throw me!
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I think the issue the OP has with Fox has nothing to do with the Healthcare bill. A position that I also support.
maybe not nothing, if Fox raises your blood-pressure that much you might have a personal interest in health care provision.
One does not simply walk into Slashdot.
When the government has to pay for your health, they have a rational for controlling your life choices. "I'm sorry sir, the government forbids me to put bacon on your burger. Your cholesterol is too high. May I suggest the garden burger? If you really want the beef burger, you'll have to pay the fatty fat fatso tax."
About 3 or 4 hectomegaseconds ago, we started gradually phasing that in, starting with NASA. Probe crashed. Stupid government. We need private industry metricism!!
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> Here is a simple question: if you make taxes optional, then what would you do if 90% of the people choose not to pay taxes?
I would end up with a smaller government, of course. If you eliminated all the income redistribution programs like social security, medicare, medicaid, earned income credit, etc., the government would likely end up needing 10% of the tax revenue it needs now. Then, if we also stopped fighting stupid wars over pipeline politics in central asia, we might actually be able to *gasp* pay off the national debt.
"We have to pass this bill so you can find out what's in it..."
To quote Eugene Volokh, "It's going to be very, very exciting!"
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