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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (461712)3/6/2009 4:18:36 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 1575622
 
>>> Most people would not characterize having national health care coverage as 'socialism".

You say that as though that's all it is. It isn't just health care. It is Medicare. It is Social Security. It is paying people to watch Oprah (i.e., extended unemployment benefits). It is giving people $50 Billion in food stamps.

It is paying the mortgages for people who chose to buy a bigger house than they could afford, or even to buy a house when they couldn't afford a house. It is Medicaid, it is giving money to GM so it can over pay its employees because the socialists love Big Labor. This list just does on indefinitely.

The socialism we're getting is far bigger than socialized medicine. But because I know more about the health care industry than I do much else, and it involves a bigger segment of the economy than anything else, it is certainly the most egregious example.

What is disturbing is that we're off to create a socialized health care system like Canada's when Canadians are saying, "What a piece of crap this is".

A Canadian physician called in to Wilcow's program yesterday.

- Routine X-Ray - 2 WEEKS

- Degenerative Arthritis - 2-6 months to get an appointment with an orthopedist, another year or more to schedule a surgery.

- CT Scan - a few months.

- MRI - up to a year

- ROUTINE LABWORK - weeks.


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