Throwing stones in our glass house
A group favoring a market-based approach and emphasizing patient choice, Conservatives for Patient Rights, came out Friday with two new ads featuring British and Canadian citizens who have suffered problems, such as a British woman who could not get a pap smear and her later diagnosis with cervical cancer came too late for treatment and a Canadian man who had to travel to the U.S. to get his heart condition treated. "Listen to those who already have government run health care," states the ad. "Tell Congress to listen to."4,070 women will die of cervical cancer in the US this year, and heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US!
Do they really think we'll fall for this? The GOP and insurance industry are bashing government-run health care by pointing out that it's not perfect, but look at our system! WE already have long waits! WE already have bureaucrats rationing care! And WE already have people dying preventable deaths by the millions IN THIS COUNTRY, RIGHT NOW.
Why is it OK when for-profit insurance companies ration care and let people die to save a few bucks, but not OK that the government might do it? At least the government would cover everyone, and not let 47 million people go without health care altogether!
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Oh, but it'll work. Seriously, it will with certain groups of people who are so worried about losing the shit they have they won't let loose of it long enough to get the gold bar someone is giving them.
Of course the right-wing sheep in this country will fall for it. They are afraid of "Socialism!"
We already have a collection and dissemination of funds for the benefit of everyone in this country. Who do these people think pays for the roads they drive on? Wonder whose tax dollars pay for our military. But the republicans don't call that socialism. Health care for everyone?...oooooo scary!!! socialism! Obama wants you to lose your health care!
I want a bumpersticker that says "If you don't want universal healthcare, quit driving on my "univeral" roads"
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