Anonymous
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I guess it depends on which Republicans you are talking about. If you are talking about Congressmen, then they are afraid that all those HMOs and insurance firms like Pfizer which contribute to their campaings (and who make boat loads of money acting as middlemen and producing nothing in terms of products or services that add any value to healthcare in the US) will be marginalized and unable to contribute to their campaigns when their profits plunge.
gregory_dittman
Let's see, the average European plays 60% or more in taxes, has no military (so it's going straight to social programs) and still has to wait weeks for surgery or a doctor's vist. Canada doesn't even have enough hospital beds. While the U.S. libs are trying to get universal welfare, the British are trying to get away from it.
The closest thing the U.S. has to socialised medicine is the VA hospitals and look at the complaints about those.
kpk02
Why on Earth would anyone want the government handling their health and well being? The only thing the government does well is spend excessive amounts of money very inefficiently. Oh wait , and they also do a great job of smothering everything in months worth of paperwork. Yeah that's who I want handling my healthcare. On top of that, it opens up the doors to restrictions on what you can and can't do for anything that could potentially relate to your health.
Most important it does two things:
- increases taxes
- increases government spending
Neither of which we can afford right now. We need less taxes and less government.
Anonymous
Nope. California tried to implement a system like the national one, in fact the very system the national universal healthcare plan touted by Dems. Guess what, it failed to pass the voters. I don't think that even if this gets implemented, it will last long.
Anonymous
The republicans will gladly allow the democrats to take credit for the government healthcare debacle. Just be prepared to pay for illegals universal healthcare ... just as you are paying for their public education.