What guarantee? The traditional one - we have regular elections. If universl health care turns out to be the disaster its opponents claim, it’ll be an orphan everybody will be happy to repeal. If the Democrats foolishly try to keep an unpopular UHC program alive, they’ll be replaced by Republicans who’ll be glad to take the credit for killing it.
The opponents of universal health care aren’t afraid of its failure - they’re worried about its success. They’re worried that if UHC gets a chance it might succeed and then their vested interests in private health care will be worthless. So they’ve got to kill UHC before it has a chance to succeed or fail on its own merits.
I’m not clear on all the details but I hear you won’t be forced to change your health care plan if you don’t want to and depending on your income it may not cost you anything personally.
We all pay taxes to support schools {even people with no0 kids do this} and roads {people who don’t drive do this} the fire dept, the police, the armed forces.
My taxes helped support the war in Iraq and I thought that sucked but I chose to work for change. I’m still willing.
I don’t think most of the opponents are that specific in their fears. There are a lot of amorphous bugaboos like “socialism” or “rationing.” I think this is mostly fear of the unknown, not “Rah, insurance companies, rah!”
Thank you. Excellent point. Our democracy is indeed the guarantee. That’s why I don’t understand all the fear and panic over health care. If it doesn’t work out we can and will change it. Isn’t that why the Dems are in charge now, because the Pubbies had there chance and pretty much blew it? If the Dems don’t smarten up and actually deliver something decent lets toss em out. More independents I say. More moderates.
Putting someone into a situation that they do not want IS assault.
So people with the money to buy what they need…come to America because they can, right? And the people who stay home in Canada find our system “horrifying” and “difficult to believe”. How do they figure that out if they are staying home in Canada in the first place? How do the people who stay home and not use American healthcare get to share their opinion on something didn’t even buy and their opinions actually matter on something they didn’t buy?
The fact that “rich” Canadians come here spend all this money on healthcare is proof positive that they are satisfied customers.
Remember the story of the emperor’s new clothes? Keep in mind that while the majority of people went along with the story, there were a couple of tailors who had a specific interest in having everyone else believe he was wearing magic clothes. They were making money out of selling him those supposed outfits.
Same thing with our health care system. It may be broken but there are people who are making money off it as it is. They have no interest in getting it fixed. But they can’t come out and say “we should keep things the way they are because I want to buy a new yacht” - the public isn’t going to get behind that motive however honest it may be. So they have to say “the system we have is great for everyone and everyone benefits from it - or at least they would benefit less from a different sytem” - they have to make their self-interest appear to be a community interest.
You are correct. The argument that whatever the mob wants, the mob should get is an embarrassing argument. But your ire should be pointed at Der Trihs, not me.
Actually, I am quite concerned about UHC failing. Why am I concerned? Because, like a large number of other government programs, instead of it getting killed it will just get more funds. The politicians are not very good at killing programs. If there was a way to ensure that the program would be killed if it did not work cheaply and effectively I would be much more open to the idea.
If only we had some sort of system in place so that we had some sort of control over our politicians. I have it, maybe we should periodically be able to vote to see if they remain in office!
You guys do know that nobody has to take Obamacare if they don’t want it, don’t you? If you adore getting cornholed by HMOs, you’re welcome to continue doing so.
Well, there was the army’s Crusader mobile howitzer program and the F-22 Raptor. Both constituted welfare programs for downtrodden states.
It begins to look like the airborne laser might follow in the Raptor’s footsteps.
Those are all in the last 9 years.
Those are not entitlement programs. Try again. You might not like the howitzer or F-22 program but it neither are entitlement programs.
And,** Snowboarder Bo**, read the original post. The original request was for entitlement programs. In case there is any confusion on what an entitlement program is, here is a link.