America is a socialist republic - well, except for healthcare.
Here is a quote from some idiot posted on a blog called “The One Minute Case.”
The claim that there is a “right to healthcare” violates the principle of individual rights because it requires that the liberty of doctors and the property of taxpayers be violated to provide for others. When the New Deal and Great Society programs forced doctors and taxpayers to become sacrificial offerings to the “common good”, the current “healthcare crisis” was born.
To the rest of the educated world, we are pathetic neanderthals when it comes to our healthcare system. While other country’s such as France, Canada and Great Britain pay for their healthcare through taxes - and receive it free of charge no matter what their income or condition - we spend our lives worried that A. we will lose our job and our healthcare, B. We will be unlucky enough to develop a condition that the HMO’s do not consider “insurable” for some bullshit reason (well, not bullshit for them. The reason is profits), or C. We will move from one insurance to another and not be insured due to “existing conditions.”
I know. I’ve heard the inane argument from mental midgets that universal healthcare is flawed, eliminates choice and pushes your taxes into an unbearable category. This is the argument of a frightened, stupid group. Think of the logic here - as well as the facts.
French live longer than us. British live longer than us, and here are some statistics that should send you out the doors, screaming:
In a comparison done between 13 nations in the 1998 Oxford University Press, the United States showed glaring weaknesses in its health care system. Of the 13 nations in the study the US ranked;
* 13th (last) for low-birth-weight percentages
* 13th for neonatal mortality and infant mortality overall
* 11th for postneonatal mortality
* 13th for years of potential life lost (excluding external causes)
* 11th for life expectancy at 1 year for females, 12th for males
* 10th for age-adjusted mortality
* 12,000 deaths/year from unnecessary surgery
* 7000 deaths/year from medication errors in hospitals
* 20,000 deaths/year from other errors in hospitals
* 80,000 deaths/year from nosocomial infections in hospitals
* 106,000 deaths/year from nonerror, adverse effects of medications
Our healthcare system sucks. The idea that we are the greatest country in all areas is bullshit. It’s what the drug companies and the HMO’s want you to continue to believe so you’ll buy this garbage. Everytime I get into a discussion with some ignorant blowhard who tells me all about the dangers of universal healthcare and how it’s “socialism”, I feel like thrusting his head into a brick wall.
We ARE socialists.
Our schools are free. They are run by the government. That is SOCIALISM.
Our police and fire departments are free. They are run by the government. That is SOCIALISM.
Our mail is free, short of a small cost. It is run by the government. That is SOCIALISM.
Medicare is free, with a few ancilliary expenses. It is run by the government. That is SOCIALISM.
Complaining about those services? Nah. I didn’t think so. But yet, the bill of goods our government - or shall I say our bought and sold government - has sold us about a universal healthcare system being dangerous for the country is just another big lie that too many gullible people believe. If Medicare works, why not a program for everyone? Please answer that intelligently.
Instead, we live in fear for that one thing that will bankrupt us, put us into the streets and destroy the last few years of our lives because of a system that is not built to give a shit about us - except for the few who profit from it. I wonder who’s friends those are.
