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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (485004)	11/1/2003 3:09:44 PM
From: Peter O'Brien	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I will NEVER get anything out of SS, REGARDLESS of who is President. Bush's actions increase the probability that this fraudulent program will collapse SOONER rather than LATER, which is just fine with me. Why are you so trustful of government? Do you think government is going to suddenly "clean up their act" if you just agree to give them "a little bit more" of your hard-earned money to supposedly "balance the budget"? A Libertarian administration and Congress is what this country really needs. But, since that is not going to happen, the Republicans are (by far) the lesser of two evils.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (485004)	11/1/2003 3:29:33 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Bush's prescription drug plan forces people into HMO's owned by his cronies who will profit nicely. That move alone will increase the cost to the government since HMO's are less efficient than public Medicare. (6% overhead versus about 15%) The only way to truly save money on all this is to socialize medical care, something Republicans are 100% against. I think we need to think seriously about a Canadian type system because the one we have just isn't working, and is never going to. Even the poor who can't afford current health care make us pay for it anyway when they stagger into emergency rooms with advances illnesses and conditions. In fact that costs the system much more than insuring them in the first place. Of course they have to pay in to get it, which means they have to work, unless they're children. The real problem is the need to take the profit out of medical care and that's something Bushies will never allow.