Clinton & universal health care
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Hillary Rodham Clinton, during an appearance on Good Morning America this morning, continued to make the case for universal health care. She also said she’d “learned a lot” from her health care effort as first lady.
““We’re going to have universal health care when I’m president  there’s no doubt about that. We’re going to get it done,â€? Clinton said during the television appearance.
Clinton is in Iowa today to receive the endorsement of former Gov. Tom Vilsack. She also had a pretty good week of fundraising, according to newspaper reports this morning. Read more about that “here”:http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/03/26/2007-03-26_hil_shakes_money_tree_for_10m_-2.html
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Mrs. Clinton:
HMO’s were a democratic idea and look where it has gotten us. We have higher costs for less value in our health care. I have no insurance because I now work for a Christian Non-profit and am a diabetic. I can’t afford to get the tests I need, my medication costs me a fortune and still I do not want universal health care. I have too many relatives in Canada who buy private health care because the Canadian Health care decides who should have what and whether surgery is necessary and paid for or you are too sick, too old or handicapped and should die and decrease the surplus population of people who are not productive and need care. How we care for our elderly and disabled is a reflection of our society. The American Society is pathetic and getting worse. Universal Healthcare will allow doctors and bio-ethicsits to play God, denegrate the value of a human life and further lower the common denominator of the secular humanist viewpoint.
While this could learn to putting the ethics of human life into the doctors’ or government’s hands I believe this may be a necessary evil. Britain spends around $2,000 a year per citizen on health care each year while the U.S. spends around $6,000. However the U.S., compared to other industrialized countries, have higher infant mortality rates, lower life expectancy, and a score of other health problems that this extra money isn’t improving. People, who can afford it, may still buy private health care to avoid waiting or having government decisions regulate their health, but when a family has a child with a potentially deadly illness if not continually treated and they have to make the decision to let him/her die or financially cripple their family for years, I doubt the family is questioning whether the decision free health care would make would be ethical to them. With millions of Americans without health care I believe this should be a universally accepted “ethical” answer.
I have been talking about the downfall of American healthcare for years. Nobody believed me and blamed the doctors as being greedy, overpaid people. Unfortunately, people are only waking up to it now and it is too late. The health insurance industry is reaping record profits while healthcare is in a major crisis. In the meantime, Medicare keeps cutting fees and doctors and hospitals suffer. Who suffers in the end? You do. Because healthcare is not free and somebody has got to pay the freight. Latest report shows a shortage of 200,000 doctors and 800,000 nurses within the next five years. Keep in mind folks, Hilary’s universal health plan is socialized medicine. And socialized medicine is as bad as HMO’s. Remember the saying, “socialized medicine is wonderful until you get sick.” Truth of the matter is, socialized medicine is not good even before you get sick and neither are HMO’s. And if we continue with healthcare as it is a la Wall Street or socialized medicine, all I can say is, start learning how to cut your own appendix out.
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I have talked to a Canadian about his health care and an Irishman, formerly a Brit, about his heath care for a total of 3 different countries – you know what? Both LOVED their health care! The Irishman’s wife was about to have a baby and health care costs were not even on their radar! I think if you talk to the average rank and file (working people) in counties that have health care you will hear a lot more good than bad. If it is so bad then why aren’t these citizens dropping like flies? Here in America many, many people are going literally bankrupt because of their health care costs. It’s true – check it out.