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McClaren said:
That Guy said:
it would be cool if there was some kind of "opt out" system whereby if you didn't live close enough to receive the benefits, of if you're like Mafoo and hate anything public, you can instead opt out of the system and go with whatever you'd like.


Another thought of a NHS is that it also sort of takes the load off of employers to pay for their employee's health insurance, doesn't it?

 

 Right. This could potentially help small business owners.

Well not really they rarely pay for healthcare.  It'd help the big buisnesses.

 



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MrBubbles said:
while i may not answer a direct question about where i live right now, i have on a number of occasions said where i live. tbh, i always find it amusing when people ask me about it.

Well clearly your either America's hat or pants.

I'm going with America's hat.  (Sports radio show refrence.)



Health care should be geared towards the middle class, not the poor.

"I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it." --Benjamin Franklin



Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
 — Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire

So many commies in one thread



Repent or be destroyed

CommunistHater said:
So many commies in one thread

May I say that you are a very politically open minded individual communisthater.

 



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Well, there is one thing we can all agree on, that the U.S. healthcare system needs a massive overhaul.

You aren't going to see the government institute a national healthcare system at this point in time for several reasons. 1) The political will for it isn't there. American people are still skeptical to some degree. If it does happen, it will happen in baby steps. That's probably the best approach anyways to work out the kinks. 2) Its not economically feasible at the moment. Obama has the right idea of looking for ways to make healthcare cheaper. Regardless of how you think the problem should be solved, you can't argue that the U.S. is spending way more money than is economically feasible based on the role healthcare should play in the economy as a percentage of GDP.



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Kasz216 said:
MrBubbles said:
while i may not answer a direct question about where i live right now, i have on a number of occasions said where i live. tbh, i always find it amusing when people ask me about it.

Well clearly your either America's hat or pants.

I'm going with America's hat.  (Sports radio show refrence.)

 



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akuma587 said:
Well, there is one thing we can all agree on, that the U.S. healthcare system needs a massive overhaul.

 

 I don't agree. I like the US healthcare system. It's the best in the world.



Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
 — Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire

Tyrannical said:
akuma587 said:
Well, there is one thing we can all agree on, that the U.S. healthcare system needs a massive overhaul.

 

 I don't agree. I like the US healthcare system. It's the best in the world.

 

Fail...

 



 

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Sardauk said:
Tyrannical said:
akuma587 said:
Well, there is one thing we can all agree on, that the U.S. healthcare system needs a massive overhaul.

 

 I don't agree. I like the US healthcare system. It's the best in the world.

 

Fail...

 

 

 http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/hybrid.asp?typeCode=147

Funny how the world univeristy rankings for the top 50 life science and biomedicine colleges is dominated by US universities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_Laureates_in_Physiology_or_Medicine

Nobel prizes in medicine too.

It's just a lie spread by Liberals that the US healthcare system isn't tops. It's so they can try and control it through socialized medicine.



Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
 — Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire