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Re: Democracy - how to achieve it?
Posted:
Dec 10, 2012 12:46 PM
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On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Paul Tanner <upprho@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Kirby, on the other hand, does the opposite - the point of his writing
> is to achieve the opposite, to try to get people to vote against
> universal health care by voting accordingly for the party and people
> who would not expand and even start to cut the funding for even just
> the existing programs.
>
I don't think so Paul. Our household benefits from Medicare as well
as Social Security. Medicare is already a public-private endeavor
i.e. the government does not own the Catholic or other hospitals to
which remittance is made. The largest supplier of oxygen is Apria --
again, not any more Federal than Federal Express.
> Either government will be involved in helping to pay for health care
> or it will not. Either government's present role in helping to pay for
> health care will expand, stay the same, or it will contract.
>
> I am arguing for it to expand. Kirby argues against that, with all
> kinds of hints that he would like to see it contract.
>
There's a double meaning to "contract" -- "KON tract" vs. "con TRACT"
that's obscuring your argument.
Definitely big governments should contract (KON tract) in the
preferred USA model, as the bias is towards small and medium sized
businesses on Main Street. The tattoo parlor and medical marijuana
dispensary gets the checks for those covered. The big businesses tend
to be viewed with more suspicion as they're global and send jobs
overseas (although some smaller businesses do that too).
> The necessary result of it even just not expanding is that the only
> thing left to meet all that growing unmet need is charity.
>
> And yes, the unmet need is growing since the private marketplace is
> rejecting a greater and greater percentage of the population, leaving
> more and more with no health care. We now have close to 100 million
> people - close to 1/3 of the entire population - that are either
> under-insured with junk insurance with out of pocket expenses so high
> they might as well not have insurance, or with no coverage at all.
It's true that hospitals are closing their doors to large numbers who
have no coverage. Lots more hospitals and clinics might be needed, to
avoid this.
Many Americans get whatever basic health care in prisons, given how
many Americans have prison as their lifestyle, at least in some
chapters.
The thing I was expressing to Paul was skepticism. Big governments
may be up to the job of providing higher living standards, but not
every big government is big in the same sense. Some are big dummies.
I don't think his Feds have the brains or the courage to be like
Swedes and take care of people with health care needs. They let "mad
kings" like Nixon-Kissinger go on bombing-killing sprees with wild
abandon, plus there've been other orgies of violence ever since.
Gitmo is still open for business.
They have no discipline, these camo-wearing Americans, these Feds with
their herbicides and blow torches, taking out mom & pop crops, putting
a bullet into junior. They're like the orcs in Lord of the Rings.
I'm sad that Paul only has this failing poor excuse for a government
to look up to, to think of as maybe getting "big" someday (in the
sense of wise). Sweden's leaders likened the USA's actions to those
of Nazi Germany during the height of the Vietnam War. That's when the
US ambassador was withdrawn (for a second time?) by the piggish
cowards in DC and their fraudulent military (the good guys of whom
were in open or behind-the-scenes mutiny).
Good luck getting universal health care from such brainless
warmongering numbskulls Paul, seems like a long shot.
I think a better plan would be for the 50 states to gradually distance
themselves from DC and make stronger alliances with more mature states
that are more likely to last. But if you want to bolster DC then I
say go for it. Make it the object of your prayers. I just don't see
history as being on your side, that's all.
Kirby
Message was edited by: kirby urner
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