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    Default Universal Healthcare Voted Into Law!

    Lol.

    I've been talking online with several Canadians and Australians who can't grasp why we Americans don't have universal healthcare yet. One Canadian man told me that he had emergency surgery after a stroke. He saw several specialists and spent some weeks in the hospital?

    His bill?

    $0.00

    Maybe America is too stupid to figure it out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by America View Post
    I've been talking online with several Canadians and Australians who can't grasp why we Americans don't have universal healthcare yet. One Canadian man told me that he had emergency surgery after a stroke. He saw several specialists and spent some weeks in the hospital?

    His bill?

    $0.00

    Maybe America is too stupid to figure it out.
    who paid the doctors, surgeons, nurses, anesthesiologists, and other various people involved in that emergency surgery? where did that money come from?
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SmarterthanYou View Post
    who paid the doctors, surgeons, nurses, anesthesiologists, and other various people involved in that emergency surgery? where did that money come from?
    Its far better when the money comes from the government, than private health care companies who are more concerned with profits.

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    Its far better when the money comes from the government, than private health care companies who are more concerned with profits.
    money does not come from the government, so would you care to rephrase your answer with truth? or continue with the lie that government money is free?
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SmarterthanYou View Post
    money does not come from the government, so would you care to rephrase your answer with truth? or continue with the lie that government money is free?
    I never said government money is free, but heath care provided by the government is far far superior to what we get from private insurance companies. Can you fucking believe, a doctor tells a patient that they need a particular surgery and it cannot be done until approved by their insurance carrier?

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    I never said government money is free, but heath care provided by the government is far far superior to what we get from private insurance companies. Can you fucking believe, a doctor tells a patient that they need a particular surgery and it cannot be done until approved by their insurance carrier?
    I must have missed the part of the US Constitution that made it a right of the people to lay claim to the services of another person........that sounds like, slavery.
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SmarterthanYou View Post
    I must have missed the part of the US Constitution that made it a right of the people to lay claim to the services of another person........that sounds like, slavery.
    What does that comment have to do with my post.

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    Quote Originally Posted by America View Post
    Lol.

    I've been talking online with several Canadians and Australians who can't grasp why we Americans don't have universal healthcare yet. One Canadian man told me that he had emergency surgery after a stroke. He saw several specialists and spent some weeks in the hospital?

    His bill?

    $0.00

    Maybe America is too stupid to figure it out.
    I used to travel extensively throughout Canada on business. They like the fact that they don't pay for what they get, but they wish what they got was a lot better, and definitely more timely. If it's not life threatening, you wait...
    Life is better when you live it on your own terms...

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    What does that comment have to do with my post.
    should we assume that with GOVERNMENT running national healthcare for all, that price controls are going to be necessary?
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SmarterthanYou View Post
    should we assume that with GOVERNMENT running national healthcare for all, that price controls are going to be necessary?
    If all insurance was as good and well run as medicare, we would be far better off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    If all insurance was as good and well run as medicare, we would be far better off.
    so you don't want to answer the question. I understand.
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SmarterthanYou View Post
    so you don't want to answer the question. I understand.
    The answer to your question is NO. Next?

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    The answer to your question is NO. Next?
    so NO price controls? what exactly would government regulate, then?
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SmarterthanYou View Post
    so NO price controls? what exactly would government regulate, then?
    who said they would regulate anything. Does the government regulate Medicare or Medicaid?

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    who said they would regulate anything. Does the government regulate Medicare or Medicaid?
    maybe you should explain what, exactly, you believe national healthcare would be, because YES, Medicare and Medicaid is regulated by the government.
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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