Over a year and a half to go and already candidates are talking about raising taxes for entitlement programs. We'll have to wait and see how well the voting public receives Edwards' ideas.
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"We'll have to raise taxes. The only way you can pay for a healthcare plan that cost anywhere from $90 to $120 billion is there has to be a revenue source," Edwards said on NBC's Meet the Press news program.
Oh yeah, and don't forget that out of the Democratic claim of 47 million "uninsured Americans", 10-12 million of those are illegal aliens, along with a fair number of self-employed folks who pay as they go for medical care.
I've expressed my feelings on "universal" healthcare many times so I don't really want to go off on it again, but it really bothers me that "mob rule" will result in the downfall of this country.... [:'(]
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So I said "Do you love me?" & she said, "No, but that's a really nice ski mask."
What is "funny" is that it's always said that taxes will be raised on the rich. That is & has always been pure claptrap. The "rich" have access to programs & products that will protect their wealth, those to which us normal working people have no access. The poor aren't going to see taxes raised on them because they pay no taxes. Those who will foot the bill for raised taxes are those of us who work for a living.
We already have overpriced universal health care paid for by everyone else's taxes, it's called Medicaid, so we don't need any further tax supported giveaways.
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OK, Edwards is stupid. He didn't learn anything from 2004, did he? My feelings have been that Edwards could be our next president (unlike Clinton or Obama, he's electable; getting his party's nomination would be his toughest challenge. If he could achieve that, I think he could beat whoever his Republican challenger would be). But he's got to be crazy to come out a year before the first primary and start this kind of talk. I may be wrong, but I see no way the public will support this.
I don't think he and Hillary are far apart on their views of universal healthcare, but Clinton is probably smart enough to keep quiet about it, at least for now.
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I just read an article in the Juneau Alaska Empire newspaper. It reguards the local support in Skagway Alaska for a road to Juneau. This was prompted by the fact that Alaskans could no longer go to Whitehorse Yukon Canada to have their babies as had been the case for decades.
The cost in Canada was about 7000. now the babaies cost 30000. in JUneau. The Canadian Doctors were forced to quit delivering Anerican Babies due to lack of liability insurance.
What would doctors cost in the USA if they all didn't have huge insurance costs?
Universal Health care is the best, my baby was free.
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The history of entitlement programs in the US is replete with stories of costs spiralling out of control. Universal Healthcare would be another, superlative example of a uncontrolled entitlement program cost. Universal Healthcare would ruin the US.
"What would doctors cost without huge insurance costs?" Well, the question is if the doctors aren't liable for the malpractice suits who would be, the federal government? Do you really think that in the US system people are not going to be able to sue some responsible party when things go down adversly? That ain't the American way, dude! Somebody has got to pay when a little old lady drops her scalding hot cup of coffee in her lap! Obviously someone else is to blame for this rather than the little old lady! In the US people sue -- and win!!!! -- step ladder companies when they fall off and injure themselves because warnings were not printed on the step ladder that injury may result from falling off the ladder. I don't think Canada is quite as litigious a society as we are here in the US.
Oh yeah, and don't forget that out of the Democratic claim of 47 million "uninsured Americans", 10-12 million of those are illegal aliens, along with a fair number of self-employed folks who pay as they go for medical care.
Those illegals already get free health care. It's one of the reasons they come here. Illegals cost the Harris County Hospital District in Houston over $100 million per year. The tab in California for illegals is over a Billion a year.
You would think the public in those states infested with illegals would make clamping down on illegal immigration the number one voting issue, but NO. Here in the DC area, a hugeproblem is traffic congestion to the tune of many extra hours per week for commuters to and from work, but for whatever reason, its neverone of the majorvoting priorities.
The US's lack of a universal health care system is one reason Ford and GM are headin down the tubes. This will only get worse with an ageing population. More big corps will be bankrupt yet.
Also many senior americans find they need to go to Canada to afford their prescription drugs.
I can't help noticing that in the US, many McDonalds resteraunts are employing seniors while in Canada it tends to be kids. An American friend pointed out that many seniors work at McDonalds to receive medical benefits. If true this is a bit sad.
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Taxes For Universal Healthcare
