Comments on: 1.8 million veterans lack health coverage http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/12/18-million-veterans-lack-health-coverage/ Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:00:17 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Doc http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/12/18-million-veterans-lack-health-coverage/comment-page-1/#comment-25640 Doc Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:17:43 +0000 http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/12/18-million-veterans-lack-health-coverage/#comment-25640 Every other first-world country has health care as a universal right of all citizens, paid for by all citizens through their taxes. In these countries, everyone get health care, it costs half as much, and the quality is comparable or better than ours. Even better, you get rid of insurance companies that specialize in insuring only the healthy, and dumping people as soon as they contract a chronic illness. Our capitalism drives the bottom-line to use health care to make money, and the sick be damned. Health care is not, should not be, and does not work when it is made a competitive, profit-driven enterprise. By the way, all those advances from research that do improve medicine also come from taxpayer funding, and are then repackaged and sold a second and third time to us by drug company rip-offs. VA health care is now in a shambles, because the money has been cut again and again by our "support the troops, until they come home" Bushies. That's why you find numerous documented cases of VA psychologists pressured to get vets to admit to drug and alcohol problems, depression, etc so that, once they are discharged, the VA can say they had a preexisting condition and not pay for their care. Every other first-world country has health care as a universal right of all citizens, paid for by all citizens through their taxes. In these countries, everyone get health care, it costs half as much, and the quality is comparable or better than ours. Even better, you get rid of insurance companies that specialize in insuring only the healthy, and dumping people as soon as they contract a chronic illness.

Our capitalism drives the bottom-line to use health care to make money, and the sick be damned.

Health care is not, should not be, and does not work when it is made a competitive, profit-driven enterprise. By the way, all those advances from research that do improve medicine also come from taxpayer funding, and are then repackaged and sold a second and third time to us by drug company rip-offs.

VA health care is now in a shambles, because the money has been cut again and again by our “support the troops, until they come home” Bushies. That’s why you find numerous documented cases of VA psychologists pressured to get vets to admit to drug and alcohol problems, depression, etc so that, once they are discharged, the VA can say they had a preexisting condition and not pay for their care.

]]> By: jon boy http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/12/18-million-veterans-lack-health-coverage/comment-page-1/#comment-25524 jon boy Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:05:47 +0000 http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/12/18-million-veterans-lack-health-coverage/#comment-25524 If these people would just save their money they could afford insurance instead of blowing it on all kinds of crap they think they need like cable t.v. If these people would just save their money they could afford insurance instead of blowing it on all kinds of crap they think they need like cable t.v.

]]> By: Dr Coles http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/12/18-million-veterans-lack-health-coverage/comment-page-1/#comment-25506 Dr Coles Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:21:48 +0000 http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/12/18-million-veterans-lack-health-coverage/#comment-25506 All Vets have health care and the always have. Its called the VA. Wow, what a propaganda piece. The government caused the problem with health care in America by over socializing (with mandates) medicine to the extent it is not completive, and we want to exacerbate the problem? U.S. Capitalism refers to an economic system in which the means of production are all owned and operated for profit, and in which investments, distribution, income, production and pricing of goods and services are determined through the operation of a market economy. It is the right of individuals and groups of individuals acting as "legal persons" or corporations to trade capital goods, labor, land and money (see finance and credit). See http://www.InteliOrg.com/ All Vets have health care and the always have. Its called the VA. Wow, what a propaganda piece. The government caused the problem with health care in America by over socializing (with mandates) medicine to the extent it is not completive, and we want to exacerbate the problem? U.S. Capitalism refers to an economic system in which the means of production are all owned and operated for profit, and in which investments, distribution, income, production and pricing of goods and services are determined through the operation of a market economy. It is the right of individuals and groups of individuals acting as “legal persons” or corporations to trade capital goods, labor, land and money (see finance and credit). See http://www.InteliOrg.com/

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