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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?
Um, if it doesn't initially have a single payer setup, it eventually will. Unfortunately at this point in time, our government serves no other purpose than to increase its own power. Both democrats and republicans have the same agenda just for different reasons.
The insurance industry is already highly regulated. If anything needs to be changed in those regulations, do it. In the mean time, do tort reform and seriously consider breaking up the AMA. The number of schools handing out medical degrees has DECREASED over time, not increased. This is due to the AMA withholding acredidation to server their own purposes.
But if we keep giving control of small things to the government, how many small things will it take before we are not longer a democracy (people's power by popular vote)? This reform is just another step closer to less rights for citizens and more power to the government.
Ah, welcome back to Slashdot. I attempt to formulate a valid debate and am immediately modded down as "flamebait" by someone who disagrees with the points I made. Is rational debate "flamebait?" I guess it is, but isn't that exactly the point of this post? Aren't we trying to elicit a higher quality of debate than the shouting match going on on TV? Is Slashdot so ill equipped to discuss politics?
F@ck Fox and all republicans.
Ahhh. Senator Ted. You know, if there's a hell, that man is wishing he had a glass of water right now. Some nice cool Chappaquidick water would really go down nice, don't you think?
Yeah, I know, that's off subject, but you mentioned the douche first, LOL
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