Are Republicans afraid that they will lose popular support if "universial healthcare" is implimented by Dems?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Democratic social gathering by skill of it extremely is totally nature is colossal government. The Republican social gathering is traditionally small government. The Tea social gathering is bringing the Republican social gathering back to its small government roots. The Republican social gathering would not desire massive government the place human beings's inner maximum lives are in contact. How does the Republican social gathering desire to regulate sexual morality? Are you conversing approximately Abortion?

No, why should we have the Federal Government controlling our healthcare...what if we do not want what they decide for us as far as which doctor to see, when we can actually have a checkup and how many times...also, how long of a line will I have to stand in and wait, while an illegal migrant gets before me...how fair will that be.

No.

Health care will look great to Democrats (until they get their tax bill).

What a buried cost of this will be is for all of the Military retirees. they get health care now at US expense but will have to pay tax to support it for everyone else. What I see occurring is a class-action suit for hundreds of billions against Uncle Sam to cover the governments exposure there.

This hidden cost (will of course) totally alienate the Military from the Democrat platform for the next 50 years.

Probably.

If it was to be implemented the American public would find out that all those lies told by the big pharmaceutical and insurance companies are just that...big fat lies.

They would find out that social health care isn't 'the devil' or 'communism' like many republicans like to say.

They would find out that they can save money while having a working health care system. And they would wonder why they ever believed a word that the republicans say.

Not sure, could be, but universal health care will be very costly and taxes will have to be paid by members of all parties.