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    Quote Originally Posted by apple0154 View Post
    If you had a child, say 16 or 17, who just hung out in their room and never participated in activities with others and didn't take an active interest in life wouldn't you suspect something was wrong? When a "man" of 20 or 22 acts the same way the first thing people say is he's a lazy bum. Why? Healthy, happy people want to improve their lives. If we see someone who doesn't there is a problem. It could be something as easily diagnosed as a vitamin deficiency or low blood pressure to a serious mental illness. Now that ObamaCare is covering young people under their parent's plan hopefully the annual checkup will spot problems and they'll be corrected.
    26 year old ADULTS, and adults is what they are do not need to be mooching off Mom and Dad. I received the largest single year increase in 30 plus years of work after that was passed, in fact it was more than the last 5 year increases combined.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rocketman View Post
    26 year old ADULTS, and adults is what they are do not need to be mooching off Mom and Dad. I received the largest single year increase in 30 plus years of work after that was passed, in fact it was more than the last 5 year increases combined.
    Obviously those ADULTS don't have a job or a job that covers medical. One accident/illness could put them in debt for years. Where is your generosity and humanity?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Crashk View Post
    Ha! the right wing believes in society! Wrong. The poor are to be used.
    Not the poor necessarily but the less able and many times the poor are less able. This is due to the fact that they lack the resources to raise themselves up & other times because they don't have the willpower to raise themselves up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by apple0154 View Post
    And political satire. However, his excerpt of O'Reilly is quite enlightening.



    I asked for clarification. "The 'we' who have abundance and heading towards complacency and apathy or the 'we' who are currently in financial bondage and exhibiting the courage to free themselves?" The "we" who could afford to built 150,000 homes in a Nevada community and leave them to rot while saying the country can't afford to house the poor or the "we" on the street kicked out of their predatory mortgaged homes?
    So your opinions are based on a comedian's skits.

    I told you what "we" means: the country as a whole. Don't bother trying to avoid the question by regurgitating anti-capitalist talking points. Again, what phase is the US at?

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    Quote Originally Posted by DamnYankee View Post
    So your opinions are based on a comedian's skits.

    I told you what "we" means: the country as a whole. Don't bother trying to avoid the question by regurgitating anti-capitalist talking points. Again, what phase is the US at?
    The same phase as the rest of the world. For the Arabs it's about acquiring basic freedom. For the US and other western nations it's about acquiring financial justice. People are waking up. The threats of "we better leave things the way they are or we'll make them worse" no longer holds the people.

    Things could very well get worse before they get better as the ones at the top are perfectly happy with the way things are. They played by the rules/laws that were/are currently in force and "made it". They don't care if the rules are just and reasonable. They like the rules because they prospered under those rules and they're going to fight to keep them. That includes spreading lies and misinformation trying to strike fear into the masses. The reality is it is they who are fearful because they know change is on the way and like what we saw with the Republican party they keep saying they'll prevail, their way will win, when we all see them sinking into oblivion.

    One hundred years since the first idea/conversation about government medical care. One hundred years. Outrage doesn't begin to describe it.

    As they say everything is on the table. I like to think of it as everything is in the washing machine. First we'll get rid of the dirt and then see what we have. The lies, the inequality, the injustice.....time for a good house cleaning. That's the current phase we're in and the dirty, filthy ideas and people will be flushed out with the wash water.

    What do you think?
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    Quote Originally Posted by apple0154 View Post
    The same phase as the rest of the world. For the Arabs it's about acquiring basic freedom. For the US and other western nations it's about acquiring financial justice. People are waking up. The threats of "we better leave things the way they are or we'll make them worse" no longer holds the people.

    Things could very well get worse before they get better as the ones at the top are perfectly happy with the way things are. They played by the rules/laws that were/are currently in force and "made it". They don't care if the rules are just and reasonable. They like the rules because they prospered under those rules and they're going to fight to keep them. That includes spreading lies and misinformation trying to strike fear into the masses. The reality is it is they who are fearful because they know change is on the way and like what we saw with the Republican party they keep saying they'll prevail, their way will win, when we all see them sinking into oblivion.

    One hundred years since the first idea/conversation about government medical care. One hundred years. Outrage doesn't begin to describe it.

    As they say everything is on the table. I like to think of it as everything is in the washing machine. First we'll get rid of the dirt and then see what we have. The lies, the inequality, the injustice.....time for a good house cleaning. That's the current phase we're in and the dirty, filthy ideas and people will be flushed out with the wash water.

    What do you think?
    We are a sovereign country, so no, your answer is more avoidance of the question. Give me a number, 1-8.

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    We're just now getting around to it....amazing! We aren't the 'leaders' we tell our selves we are. I'd laugh if it weren't so damned sad.

    Thirty-two of the thirty-three developed nations have universal health care, with the United States being the lone exception . The following list, compiled from WHO sources where possible, shows the start date and type of system used to implement universal health care in each developed country . Note that universal health care does not imply government-only health care, as many countries implementing a universal health care plan continue to have both public and private insurance and medical providers.

    Country – Start Date of Universal Health Care – System Type

    Norway - 1912 – Single Payer
    New Zealand – 1938 – Two Tier
    Japan – 1938 – Single Payer
    Germany – 1941 – Insurance Mandate
    Belgium – 1945 – Insurance Mandate
    United Kingdom – 1948 – Single Payer
    Kuwait – 1950 – Single Payer
    Sweden – 1955 – Single Payer
    Bahrain – 1957 – Single Payer
    Brunei – 1958 – Single Payer
    Canada – 1966 – Single Payer
    Netherlands – 1966 – Two-Tier
    Austria – 1967 – Insurance Mandate
    United Arab Emirates – 1971 – Single Payer
    Finland – 1972 – Single Payer
    Slovenia – 1972 – Single Payer
    Denmark – 1973 – Two-Tier
    Luxembourg – 1973 – Insurance Mandate
    France – 1974 – Two-Tier
    Australia – 1975 – Two Tier
    Ireland – 1977 – Two-Tier
    Italy – 1978 – Single Payer
    Portugal – 1979 – Single Payer
    Cyprus – 1980 – Single Payer
    Greece – 1983 – Insurance Mandate
    Spain – 1986 – Single Payer
    South Korea – 1988 – Insurance Mandate
    Iceland – 1990 – Single Payer
    Hong Kong – 1993 – Two-Tier
    Singapore – 1993 – Two-Tier
    Switzerland – 1994 – Insurance Mandate
    Israel – 1995 – Two-Tier
    United States – 2014 – Insurance Mandate

    http://blog.livenewschat.tv/2012/03/...al-healthcare/
    We need to get to single payer....look at our date! So late in the game. So many got rich along the way.
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