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Joe's public option health care viable proposal
One of the greatest Democrats that ever lived was John F. Kennedy. He said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
Now a days there are many people asking not what they can do for their country but rather what their country can do for them, like provide them with nationalized health care.
If these people want free health care, all they have to do is ask, "What can I do for my country." And the answer is simple. Join the military. By joining the military you will be doing something for your country and receiving free health care in the process. By refusing to join the military and bad mouthing the military and still demanding free health care, you are labeling yourself as one of those freeloaders that asks, "What can this country do for me?"
Here's another solution:
The uninsured should organize and shop around for the best group rate current insurance companies normally offer to corporations.
In other words:
STOP TRYING TO FORCE EVERYONE ELSE TO FIX YOUR PROBLEM AND FIX YOUR PROBLEM YOURSELF WITH THE RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO YOU!!!!
All though we do not anticipate a change in cabin pressure, otherwise we wouldn't have come to work today; if needed, oxygen masks will drop down. To activate... stop screaming, remove your fingernails from your neighbors leg, pull down, and place the yellow mask over your nose and mouth. If traveling with any children, or anyone acting like one,( women, you know who I mean...) put on your mask first. If you have more than 1 child, you should decide which one has the most potential.
Thank You, enjoy the flight
We are asking what we can do for our country.
What can we do to improve the health of our fellow citizens? What can we do to better serve our seniors enrolled in the medicare program? What can we do to lower the price of healthcare for all of our citizens? What can we do to insure that no citizen is dropped by their healthcare provider when they need it the most?
No one thinks that they are the only person who deserves healthcare. We want it for every citizen, because we want to help our country.
Oh please. If you can't pull yourself up the boot straps then hang it up. Jeez. What a bunch of whiners. "Can you help me? It's too hard. I'm just a girl!"
I think you're trying to be funny, maybe. But other might not.
So for those who cannot understand your humor, I ask:
Don't you have two daughters? Suppose that you die and your wife is undeducated. Your wife finds an okay job but doesn't have insurance for herself. Now your daughters are stuck in that middle area where they can't get financial aid for school, nor are their parents paying for it.
So your daughters, your sweet innocent little girls, are selling their sexuality as waitresses and surfing the iternet for sugar daddies to put the through college.
That happens. That could happen. I've been there, and I'll never feel right again. I don't want any other girl to have to o through that kind of situation.
You need to stop belittling women, or the fact that I am a woman.
You're smarter than me? What's the criteria? Streets smarts or book smart? If book smart, liberal arts smart or hard math and science smart? Or maybe we can determine who's smarter by income.
Yeah, I have two daughters. No, I don't treat them like girls. I push them hard to get their education. I come from a family of strong women. Hell, my baby sister can chew you up and spit you out. ;)
Again, I don't find you funny. I didn't find that funny even though I hope, for your sake, is was meant to be.
I'm not just a strong woman, I'm a strong person. My father didn't spoon feed me anything, but I got my own education without joining the military. I'm just as strong as you. I'm strong enough to say, yeah, you're daughter would win in a fight, because I don't hit little girls.
On topic, however, I'd rather have a struggling American have health care than stick my nose up at him or her. It's not because I'm some over empathetic, scared, uneducated girl, it's because I'm smart enough to know its good for our country economically speaking, and any decent human should want everyone to be healthy no matter the cost.
If you don't want free healthcare for Americans, than the only place you need to look for an un-American is in the mirror.
And I'm smarter than you because instead of pretending everything is a joke and wasting my time photoshoping "wallpapers" so my Internet friends can judge them, I actually learn about important topics like healthcare reform. Like I've said before, you don't demonstrate the willingness to learn. That's pretty stupid.
But then again, maybe you are smarter, you've gotten me to waste quite a bit of time on you. And I know I'll never get that time back.
My daughter? I said my sister. She's in her forties (but don't tell her I told you that ;). And I didn't mean in a fist fight (although she would still win that one too ;).
OK Pineapple, kids gloves off, all kidding aside.
I am not a cold, heartless, cruel man. I have lived long enough to learn why it is that society has some very basic rules.
The reason I don't want health care is because it forces people into doing something they don't want to do. Period. End of story. I don't care how unhealthy you are, you do not have the right to force other people into paying for your care. No one has the right to force anyone else into doing something they don't want to do no matter how noble the cause.
I'm smart enough to know that (not only is it not practical to keep everyone healthy at all cost) it is also not economically feasible (i.e. it is not good for the economy).
So, to recap:
1. Nationalized health care is just another one of those issues where one group of people want to ram it down the other's group's throat and is tearing this country apart in the process.
2. Nationalized health care will not improve the health care of all citizens it will only improve the health care of those citizens that do not have health care.
3. Nationalized health care will improve the health care of those citizens that do not have health care by worsening the health care of the other citizens (Think about what is happening to our education system where teachers teach at the lowest common denominator. They teach at the speed of the slowest student. the dumbing down of America).
My solution would be for the uninsured to organize and shop around for the best group rate current insurance companies normally offer to corporations. In other words:
STOP TRYING TO FORCE EVERYONE ELSE TO FIX YOUR PROBLEM AND FIX YOUR PROBLEM YOURSELF WITH THE RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO YOU!!!!
Lol! Everything you've just addressed proves you know nothing about the propossed health care reform going on right now.
I have asked you to learn about it, and you've refused. Instead you go off what you want to think, and what other blind people have told you.
I don't care how old you are, if youre not willing to learn anything new you might as well just get a shotgun and go sit on your porch in a rocking chair drinking some of that three "X" jug whisky.
The only way that I would go along with health care is if the government establishes an entity that is responsible for dealing with either the health care providers or the insurance companies and people without insurance would register with this entity and pay this entity. The entity would not be subsidized by the tax payers in any way shape or form. The entity would be able to negotiate better deals with insurance companies because they would have a large number of people looking to get a group rate.
Now, show me where this is the government's view of health care.
I continue to refuse to argue the specifics with you. If I go down that road I know it will never end and I do not have the time or patience to argue that with you.
I'm not your mother, I can't make you do anything but eventually I hope you can learn that there are sources of information, many of which I have previously refferred you to, which will show you that your idea of healthcare and the governments is not all that different.
I don't believe in any socialist idea. They all start out sounding like a great idea and then reality sets in. Just like welfare. "Lets be compassionate and help the poor." And now we have generational welfare recipients. If your parents were on welfare, then chances are you will too. Somehow I don't think that is what was intended but that is the reality of the results.
Obamas a socialist!? Omg I didn't know that. This changes everything..... (<-- sarcasm)
Many countries around the world provide healthcare for their citizens. They are not socialist countries, nor are we going to be.
You labling this as a socialist idea is just another, in an unfortunatly long list, that proves your lack of actual knowledge on the subject.
Everything needs a tuneup from time to time, including government. No one knows for sure that something is the best idea or plan until it is actually tested. Medicare and Medicaid have holes, but with this new bill they can be fixed. That is half the point.
If this bill passes and it turns out that it is a bad idea, we'll never, ever, be able to get rid of it. I say lets work on those Medicare and Medicaid holes rather than adding another money pit.
People should (instead of asking the gov. for anything) try to work around the problem given the resources they have available to them. Instead of people organizing and trying to force the government to pass this health care bill, they should organize and try to negotiate the best deal they can from the insurance companies (i.e., try to get the group rates offered to major corporations).
I am against the government doing stuff for people that people can and should be doing for themselves.
What is government for? Oh, I don't know. How about what it says in the constitution? That document doesn't say anything about nationalized health care. ;)
No matter the fact that it is financially beneficial for the government to offer public health care, it still stands that the right thing to do is to make sure people are healthy.
People who don't have health care are either working at minimum wage jobs or dont' have jobs at all - so why keep them "healthy"? They're not contributing much worth to society.
It's called compassion. And for your information, it's not only the unemployed or out of work. Most of those people qualify for Medicaid.
It's the people who are struggling small business owners. The people chasing their dreams and the people taking chances on the American dream. There are others, too. People from the middle class are the most affected.
It's a matter of compassion and humanity. So no matter who is suffering, let it be the millions who work at wal-mart or the millions who work in small business or those who are unemployed or those who are just lazy, they're People and I want my government and my taxes to educate and provide healthcare for them.
This is the greatest country on earth, let's act like it.
Fine. Then take out your check book and write as much compasion as you can afford and show me a little compansion (not by giving me money but) by not taking my money away from me and giving it to a cause I don't believe in. ;)
There have been times when I (dare I say it) thought like a Democrat. I wanted the government to provide me with a free education. After all, I reasoned, I'm the future of America. America should invest in its future.
Well...., guess what. I did not get a free ride. I had to join the military and then they provided me with enough money to put myself through college.
A country should always ask for something in return for the benefits it hands out.
