The continuing case for Universal Health Care

The immoral system of “profit” based health care in the United States is contrary to civilized norms in any other industrialized country.

Each year in the United States, the health care insurance industry rakes in approximately 60 billion dollars in profits.
These profits, this money, paid by people for health insurance is above and beyond the needs of every
single person currently uninsured in the USA today.

If a “for profit” health care system is predicated on its ability to make money, they would want those of us lucky enough to actually have and afford health insurance to be either healthy or dead.
Health “care” is not their goal.
In other words, if their “compassion” for our illnesses or injuries is limited to their profit or loss statement, than the people in such a barbaric system are at the mercy of bureaucrats.
Which is the supposed reason they rally against a single payer, Universal health care system in the first place.

A single payer universal health care system for the United States would insure every person in the USA.
A universal health care program in the United States would not limit people to where or which doctor they could go to.
A single payer universal health care system would ensure that the monies paid by people for health care would go......for health care !
Universal health care saves costs simply by being available and serves as preventative medicine. Prevention is certainly more cost effective than retro-active treatment and care.

Universal health care would return the decision making power to those that should have it. The health care professionals and their patients. Eliminating the billions of dollars wasted on insurance industry salaries and their subsequent profits.

Finally, a single payer, universal health care system is a “payment” system, not a health care delivery system.
For profit, managed health care is immoral for a multitude of reasons, not least of which is because health care is not a commodity people shop for. By definition, a third party (insurance companies) for “profit” health care systems' goal is profit, NOT providing health care.

In every industrialized, civilized country in the world, health care is a “right” by virtue of being a person.
If in the United States, every “person”, not citizen, but “person” is entitled to an an attorney whether or not they can afford one, than why would people who are not under suspicion of committing a crime be denied health care.

The United States has the best health care in the world, yet it means very little when the populace has no access to it. Some would argue that universal health care is socialized medicine. Well, it is.

But what is wrong with having public schools or public libraries or the military? All of these things can be classified as “socialized” programs.
No one seems to have a problem with paying for car insurance because it is the law, but we as a society cant seem to pool our tax money to insure all of our people? It makes no sense.

It is time the United States joins the civilized world, its people and leaders need to realize that being a part of this country means contributing to the society in which they are a part.

A country in which ...... "For the people, by the people” means “them” the people as much as it means “me” the people !

“Born in liberty” does not mean that the founding fathers ever meant its future citizens to ... "live in abject poverty” or to “die in neglect.”

A day in the life of Joe Republican.

A Day in the Life of Joe Republican

Joe gets up at 6am and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.

With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to ensure their safety and they work as advertised.



All but $10 of his medications is paid by his employer's medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance - now Joe gets it too.



He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.



In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained.



Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for the laws to stop industries from polluting our air.



He walks on the government-provided sidewalk to subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work. It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.



Joe begins his workday. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union member fought and died for these working standards. Joe's employer pays these standards because Joe's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union.



If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, he'll get workers compensation check because some stupid liberal didn't think he should lose his home because of a temporary misfortune.



It is noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FDIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.



Joe has to pay Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the country would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime.



Joe forgets that in addition to his federally subsidized student loan, he attended a state funded university.



Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards to go along with the taxpayer funded roads. (Not private toll roads)



He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans.



He is happy to see his father, who is now retired. His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking cheese eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to.



Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that the liberals are bad and conservatives are good.



He doesn't mention that the beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day and takes for granted today.



Joe agrees: We don't need those big government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm a self-made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have.

Palin rocks em in twin cities !

The Republican convention................

Former Governor Mike Huckabee gave a good lil speech, and you can't knock him for being a cheese ball because.........He's a CHEESE ball. We know it and expect it from him.

Then there was Rudy Guliani's speech. It was a powerful well advocated speech, even if you didnt agree with it.
Rudy always manages to play to the dumbest common denominator, but hey it was a "republican" convention, at least he knows his audience.

Palin rocked. Agree or disagree with her but thats not the point here, she gave a speech that hit home for many Americans.
If we are talking about good speakers (Orators) looks like Obama aint the only one.

SCORE, Repubs 1 Dems 0

3rd party 08 !
Clinton 2012 !!