Who else is concerned about "Universal Health Care"?

Climberaxe, you are right on the money! Anyone who has ever been a military dependent understands how INFURIATING Tricare can be. I was there with my family, total chaos. My husband is a combat vet and now uses the VA and it is also a red-tape mess. If you've never experienced it, the sheer amount of paperwork that is required to do anything is what holds up the care and keeps them from getting the very best medical professionals. If the government takes over healthcare in this country, just to make sure everyone gets to the doctor, no one will get to the doctor. You will be begging for mainstream, private medicine to come back. If we just overhaul the insurance companies and allow the doctors to do what they know is best, everything will be okay.

Can we trust the federal government to run anything?

Let's see...

Social security and medicare: As the baby boomers retire, they will bring with them a bill of over $40 trillion. No way they can pay that, as you will soon see.

New prescription drug benefits: Added another $20 trillion to the baby boomer bill.

National debt: $10 trillion. Mostly borrowed from communist China.

The dollar: Lost half it's value in less than 5 years due to massive inflation and artificially low interest rates promoted by the Federal Reserve.

The housing market - 20 million Americans are going to lose their homes over the next few years. Banks are going under. World-wide credit crisis.

The war in Iraq - "It'll be a cake-walk, it'll only cost a few billion dollars and the oil will pay for it all." I don't have to say anything else about that.

The war on terror - You're more likely to win a million dollars in the lottery than to be killed by a terrorists. But because of this we need to give up all our rights and let the government spy on us???

This isn't all Bush's fault either. I saw one poll where the democratically held congress has a 9% approval rating.

Let's add up the bills...

$70 trillion. Bare minimum. The head of the Dallas Federal Reserve bank says it's more like $90 trillion.........

"Let’s say you and I and Bruce Ericson and every U.S. citizen who is alive today decided to fully address this unfunded liability through lump-sum payments from our own pocketbooks, so that all of us and all future generations could be secure in the knowledge that we and they would receive promised benefits in perpetuity. How much would we have to pay if we split the tab? Again, the math is painful. With a total population of 304 million, from infants to the elderly, the per-person payment to the federal treasury would come to $330,000.

****This comes to $1.3 million per family of four—over 25 times the average household’s income."

From this article...

http://www.dallasfed.org/news/speeches/fisher/2008...

25 times the average household income. No way to pay that.

Let's let them control our health care too. That'll be great.

"The only nation where health care doesn't work for the people is in the USA"

Are you stupid or are you stupid?

http://www.liberty-page.com/issues/healthcare/ukhe...

etc etc

More than 400 Canadians in the full throes of a heart attack or other cardiac emergency have been sent to the United States because no hospital can provide the lifesaving care they require here. Most of the heart patients who have been sent south since 2003 typically show up in Ontario hospitals, where they are given clot-busting drugs. If those drugs fail to open their clogged arteries, the scramble to locate angioplasty in the United States begins.

If the US is so bad then hmm oh I don't know - LEAVE.

There's a thing called "funding".. Take that away, and the program obviously fails. That is what was wrong with the VA..

If the country was being ran properly.. "Universal healthcare" would be a major concern for me.. Unfortunately, we have far more important problems to deal with.. That we shouldn't...

Oh yes, but go back and see who cut the cost to the VA hospitals. It's call Rep's. Seven times in six years Rep's had control of congress and they cut the budget for the VA seven times.

The only nation where health care doesn't work for the people is in the USA

Truthfully the VA should be much better funded. It's not the system, which in fact is quite impressive -- it's that the money is just not provided to implement the system correctly. Too many bridges to nowhere to be built, I suppose.

Great Question, I never thought of VA=ing Universal Health Care. The VA is a prime example of why we don't want Universal Healthcare.

Save Water

Shower with a loved one!

I've always been treated wonderfully at the VA Hospital here. Perhaps it's a problem at some hospitals, but certainly not all. If I'm not mistaken, it's at hospitals that were outsourced.

Universal Health Care Sucks.

I think one hospital isn't an accurate prediction of what all hospitals are going to be like under the universal health care program.