Public health nightmares

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090606/ap_on_go_co/us_health_overhaul

So let me get this straight---

They want businesses, that are already struggling to make money and not lay people off, be required to provide insurance?

Eff that.   

Edited by Linus - 05 June 2009 at 10:12pm

jmac3 wrote: Wouldn't be a problem if there was national healthcare.

But then you'd all be communists, duh.

Which is in fact not national healthcare.

My state has some nonsense, and yes I edited this sentence because I forget exactly how it works,


Edited by jmac3 - 05 June 2009 at 10:29pm

jmac--- it's forced "free" healthcare for the majority of citizens in America. Can hardly get more nationalized.    Again, horrible idea because the employers will have to come up with the money some how, and that means laying more people off.


Choop-- Any competent healthcare worker washes their hands religiously, as MRSA is not something you want to mess with, and it EVERYWHERE. Study was done where 1/3 of stethoscopes has MRSA on it. Hospitals are dirty dirty places.

Employers pay for a lot of healthcare anyways...am I missing something?

Frozen Balls wrote: Employers pay for a lot of healthcare anyways...am I missing something?

I want to say that it's probably not required by law.

"you link article"

"wouldn't be a problem with national healthcare"

"this bill would require businesses to pay"

"it's forced "free" healthcare for the majority of citizens in America. Can hardly get more nationalized"

See the third and fourth quote? That was you. I don't care about them. I merely stated that your crying about this "draft of a draft" wouldn't happen with national healthcare equivalent to other countries.

choopie911 wrote: Yeah, they aren't. Sure you get health benefits for dental and stuff, but its through taxes. But again, taxes = OMG GUBERNMENTS TAKIN MAH RIGHTS!!!!!!!!

That's the difference between U.S. and Canada. Us Canadians don't have a problem with it, but in the U.S. people really really hate taxes, Boston Tea Party ring a bell? Probbly not because you have most likely never been educated on that piece of history.

Look at our population and then the Nationalized Health Care Country populations, then compare efficiency in government we already have, and then the fiasco and potential of mismanagement and total financial fiasco if we tried it. The VA can't even keep 2.5 million veterans healthcare straight, lets let the government do it for 350 million.
Hols on to your wallet as cost spiral out of control and the taxes climb higher and higher and medical staff find differant higher paying careers after all those years in med school. Maybe being a lawyer would actually pay better, or even a union big city garbage collector. As any GS/13 VA Primary Care Physician if they are staying with the VA or going on to private practice after student loan/indentured service period is over.

They could always work for Cyberdyne.

Edited by oldsoldier - 05 June 2009 at 11:33pm

Such as?