Obama Health care plan.

[Mr Khan]

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just a quick question to you americans! why are so many people so anti free health care? the nhs been a massive success in the uk even if some people moan about it, it still has been 99.9% good for the countries health as a whole. so why are so many americans scared of an american nhs?

There are a few people who make great cases regarding the insolvencies of such a move, but let me say quite honestly that a lot of it comes from big-government fear-mongering.

 

Though i think that it would be more efficient ultimately to break down the bill into its component pieces. Pass the more urgent stuff first (like the individual mandate, the price controls, and stopping the horrendous tendency of insurance companies to fight as hard as they can to deny care). A lot of the stuff is common-sense fixes that would be a lot harder to oppose with a straight face, whereas here the good stuff is buried in with a lot of more mercurial stuff

 

And it would be foolish of Republicans to try and ram through a bill that all bills must be readable, it would merely hurt them in the future when they want unreadable stuff passed. Just like the Amendment that put in Presidential Term Limits, considering that without that amendment, it would have been Eisenhower being inaugurated in 1960. The Republicans put in the amendment as revenge against FDR, and the first person it hurt was Eisenhower.