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Should We Drop the Current Health Care Plan and Go for......

atheistcatman

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Should we drop the current health care plan and go for Universal

The current healthcare debate in the United States has landed all the way to the Supreme Court. All the Republicans and special interest groups want the health care bill scraped, this may surprise you, and I want it scraped to. Let them scrap it. With that creep Romney standing no chance against Obama, the Democrats will also most likely have a majority in both houses with the behavior signing the final will and testament of the Republican Party. We can take advantage of this by coming back with even a better bill that is a piece of legislation that adds in an amendment to the United States Constitution making medical care a right based on need, not based on the ability to pay, and making the amendment into a law that states Universal Health Care in the United States of America. If you want to learn more on the benefits of a Nationalized or Universal healthcare system, watch the DprJones video series, A letter to America. Please respond, I would be interested on your thoughts on scrapping this current healthcare bill before the Supreme Court and going to Universal health care, in my opinion, this current bill still plays into the hands of the health insurance companies and other special groups, and by the changes that came to my Medicaid, I have deep suspicion the republicans had their hands in screwing over the poor and disabled in this bill.
 
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@improbiblejoe

Doing video on this subject, will post link as soon as it's uploaded. ;)
 
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my youtube video on this topic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz_IobAm-E8&context=C48d6291ADvjVQa1PpcFPNRKOcyr48fWQyBWp8vzUtkQnR0LLhb0M=
 
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@CEbbessen

I wish the United States would learn from Denmark.
 
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atheistcatman said:
@CEbbessen

I wish the United States would learn from Denmark.

Unfortunately, the USA is convinced that we have nothing to learn from anyone... at least, not if it helps regular people suffer a little less.
 
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It seems unlikely stronger healthcare legislation could get passed, given the huge fight over the recent insurance reform. Even starting with Obama and a democratic majority in congress only a very watered-down version of the original act got through. The changes are fairly minor a new tax on the more expensive healthcare insurance used to subsidize insurance for those unable to currently afford it. In exchange for all these new customers, insurance companies will agree to stop some of their shadier practices such as dropping people when they get sick and claiming 'pre-existing conditions'. The problem is, that by allowing anyone to buy insurance at any time (including after they get sick) a rational person would not buy insurance until they absolutely need it to pay for their healthcare. Hence the need for an individual mandate and everyone to have health insurance at all times.

If the health insurance reform is found to be unconstitutional, which seems unlikely to me, I would agree it wouldn't be a huge loss but I also don't see any political will to get universal healthcare because of how difficult it would be to he through.
 
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