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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    Actually it you who is ignorant of the facts, poll after poll has shown that opposition to the HC reform bill is split evenly between those who think it goes to far and those who think it doesn't go far enough. It's those who are in the middle that are losing out. Remember the old saying "The only thing you find in the middle of the road is a dead skunk."? HC is an outstanding example of where the middle has been steam rolled by the extremes.
    HC takeover promoted by the left is as much a hoax as AGW.....and just as dangerous to the economy of the nation...
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    Originally Posted by bravo
    The answer is quite simple....some folks put their beliefs, values and ethics above their greed...
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    So a guy doing cheesecake photos for the ladies and who is on record as being pro-choice is you two clowns idea of ethics and values? Hmmm, will wonders never cease!
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    Quote Originally Posted by bravo View Post
    HC takeover promoted by the left is as much a hoax as AGW.....and just as dangerous to the economy of the nation...
    Oh gawd. Why do you insists on making such ignorant and stupid comments. HC reforms is only attempting to implement, in part, what other modern nations are doing. Those nations spend half of what we do and get substantially superior results in health care. So instead of standing there like an ignorant rube and mouthing empty platitudes about "leftist" and "socialism" why don't you actually try reading something informative on this topic that isn't spoon fed to you from Fox News or Rush Limbaugh and come back when you can actually know something about this topic and can say something intelligent.

    Fuckin A. HC reform is dangerous to our economy? We Spend 16% of GDP on Health Care, which is twice what most modern nations do, it eats up 15 to 20% of business over head in our country and we get results barely above third world standards with about 15% of the population not covered and another 25 to 40% underinsured and you're saying that HC reform is dangerous to the economy?

    You had a tough time in 3rd grade math didn't you?

    Dude, you can watch Fox News till the cows come home and mouth all the empty platitudes you want but I got some news for you. Health Care reform will come, if not now then later and it will be modeled on the same basic principles that other modern industrialized nations are using and it will be economics that will drive that reform. It will be this nations businesses and corporations who will drive that reform. You can put that in the bank pal.
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    mott you expect above room temperature IQ out of bravo who's never been on a college campus. LOL
    Superfreak is about as unbalanced as asshat, this is an engineer who doesn't except blow jobs from his wife.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    Oh gawd. Why do you insists on making such ignorant and stupid comments. HC reforms is only attempting to implement, in part, what other modern nations are doing. Those nations spend half of what we do and get substantially superior results in health care. So instead of standing there like an ignorant rube and mouthing empty platitudes about "leftist" and "socialism" why don't you actually try reading something informative on this topic that isn't spoon fed to you from Fox News or Rush Limbaugh and come back when you can actually know something about this topic and can say something intelligent.

    Fuckin A. HC reform is dangerous to our economy? We Spend 16% of GDP on Health Care, which is twice what most modern nations do, it eats up 15 to 20% of business over head in our country and we get results barely above third world standards with about 15% of the population not covered and another 25 to 40% underinsured and you're saying that HC reform is dangerous to the economy?

    You had a tough time in 3rd grade math didn't you?
    there are solutions to health care that don't require us to become more like Europe.....have you even looked at what things are like in Europe.....why on earth would any sane person use them as a role model........
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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    there are solutions to health care that don't require us to become more like Europe.....have you even looked at what things are like in Europe.....why on earth would any sane person use them as a role model........
    Yes, yes I have as a fact and I've also looked at how they're done in top industrialized nations in Asia, such as, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea and I can tell by your comments that you have not looked at how things are done in Europe. Please tell me, what are the similarities between how they manage HC in the UK, France, Germany and Switzerland and the differences? Those are the four wealthiest nations in Europe. Tell me how they do it? I honestly don't think you do know.

    I mean your basing your comment on a false premis. That how they manage HC in Europe is inferior to ours when the numbers don't bear that out. They manage HC superiorly to the USA and were fools if we don't learn from them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Topspin View Post
    mott you expect above room temperature IQ out of bravo who's never been on a college campus. LOL
    Superfreak is about as unbalanced as asshat, this is an engineer who doesn't except blow jobs from his wife.
    Expecting one flew over the cuckoo's nest would be more appropriate.
    Sorry....you're right..... I haven't had my first cup of coffee yet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    Yes, yes I have as a fact and I've also looked at how they're done in top industrialized nations in Asia, such as, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea and I can tell by your comments that you have not looked at how things are done in Europe. Please tell me, what are the similarities between how they manage HC in the UK, France, Germany and Switzerland and the differences? Those are the four wealthiest nations in Europe. Tell me how they do it? I honestly don't think you do know.

    I mean your basing your comment on a false premis. That how they manage HC in Europe is inferior to ours when the numbers don't bear that out. They manage HC superiorly to the USA and were fools if we don't learn from them.
    at what cost......cradle to grave socialism has turned Europe into a non-entity.....cripes, the nations that once ruled the world had to form a union just so the rest of us wouldn't forget they existed......is that the utopia you have envisioned for the US?........

    we can fix health care without surrendering our balls......
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    Sorry....you're right..... I haven't had my first cup of coffee yet.
    No offense brother I do it far too often myself with southerncoward.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    at what cost......cradle to grave socialism has turned Europe into a non-entity.....cripes, the nations that once ruled the world had to form a union just so the rest of us wouldn't forget they existed......is that the utopia you have envisioned for the US?........

    we can fix health care without surrendering our balls......
    Yes we can, and are you referring to the Europe that is crushing our dollar with the Euro?
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    Quote Originally Posted by AssHatZombie View Post
    people are influenced to vote against their own interests by propaganda, and a dishonest use of abstractions.

    Consider dixie and his simplistic "people are corporations" idiocy.

    the idea that it's fine if the middle class is decimated as long as coporate profits rise is a great example.
    It could be that hell has frozen over, I agree with AssHatZombie!

    Those who deny the proposition of the article can easily change (probably not) their position with a simple examination of a contemporary event. The Iraq invasion and the myths that surrounded it. That Iraq was involved in 911 or al Qaeda. We won't go into the other idiotic belief that they had WMD, but clearly Americans are fooled or is that educated by story. And still are. I would bet many still believe these things.

    Those who chose to believe myths, will always believe, as they serve purposes other than truth, they fit into their worldview, and that view like the child who believes in the bogeyman is not open to reason.


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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    there are solutions to health care that don't require us to become more like Europe.....have you even looked at what things are like in Europe.....why on earth would any sane person use them as a role model........
    Because some of those countries have had government health care for fifty years. Two generations. Not bad for something that supposedly doesn't work.

    As Mott and others have said the opponents of universal health care don't know how it works. The just listen to other opponents spouting lies and propaganda.

    The tiniest bit of research would show that the citizens of every country that has universal health care want to keep it. Every country. No exception.

    There are only two reasons one would oppose universal health care; gross ignorance or greed. It's as simple as that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    at what cost......cradle to grave socialism has turned Europe into a non-entity.....cripes, the nations that once ruled the world had to form a union just so the rest of us wouldn't forget they existed......is that the utopia you have envisioned for the US?........

    we can fix health care without surrendering our balls......
    You don't know what your talking about. The French system is not socialised and is even less regulated then our pay or suffer system and Switzerland, banking capital of the world, is even more capitalistic then the USA. You just flat out don't know what your talking about.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    at what cost......cradle to grave socialism has turned Europe into a non-entity.....cripes, the nations that once ruled the world had to form a union just so the rest of us wouldn't forget they existed......is that the utopia you have envisioned for the US?........

    we can fix health care without surrendering our balls......
    Oh and by the way, maybe you should study a little history too. Europe didn't lose it's grip on world power due to socialism they lost it due to the unsustainability of Imperialism.
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    Quote Originally Posted by apple0154 View Post
    Because some of those countries have had government health care for fifty years. Two generations. Not bad for something that supposedly doesn't work.

    As Mott and others have said the opponents of universal health care don't know how it works. The just listen to other opponents spouting lies and propaganda.

    The tiniest bit of research would show that the citizens of every country that has universal health care want to keep it. Every country. No exception.

    There are only two reasons one would oppose universal health care; gross ignorance or greed. It's as simple as that.
    There also under the mistaken notion that all nations with universal health care are socialized systems like Canada and the UK when such is not the case. France, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea all have universal health care coverage and none of those nations have the socialized health care model of Canada or the UK.
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