Barack Obama

[The Conquistador]

Originally Posted by transjen

I did read your post and i was responding to the first point you pointed out while i agree that it is your own responisibilty to take care of yourself but you don't seem to consider the mishaps of everyday life you can eat all the rite foods exercise everyday and still fall off a bike or go skiing and break a bone from the points you made it sounds like if you don't have your own health ins or a large bank account then it's to bad for you just suffer and die quickly, As for just walk in to an ER and get free care well guess what you get the bill by being charged a lot more since you have health ins so in fact you are paying for the unhealthy all ready so why not just pony up and give everyone decent healthcare which will help small bussness since they will no longer need to provide healthcare benfits and the GOP should love this it would end medicare and medicade as both will no longer be needed universel healthcare is what we need and end our backwards for profit healthcare system


Jerseygirl Jen

In an idealistic world that would work. Unfortunately we live in the real world where things like that don't happen. Look at all the countries that have adopted Gov. run this and Gov. run that. Even though there is "economic equality" or some other BS, the quality of products is quite shitty and everyone is made equally poorer than if they had not had Gov. involvement. Universal healthcare is another scam by the powers in charge to make people dependent on the "man" for their needs. Look at how bogus welfare, Social Security and numerous other programs are and do you honestly expect Gov. controlled healthcare to be any less of a clusterfuck just because Obama "says so?"

Besides, how often do you expect to use your healthcare? Yes some things are out of our hands, but the odds of something detrimental happening to you are enormously small. Unless you get hit by a flaming gas tanker or something or happen to be accident prone, you are not going to rack up a giant debt.

Healthcare is not an entitlement. It is earned just like everything else we have. It is part of the meritocracy that helped to make America. Saying that everyone derves this or that is rather naive. Being compassionate to the point where you let it blind you to certain truths like the fact that life is cold is a losing strategy.

If you can afford a plasma screen TV, an Escalade with spinners and a hot rod or rice rocket but are to lazy to shell out extra bucks for your health, you deserve to get hit by a car. Life is full of trade offs; your health should be priority and everything else is just a bonus.