I am sick and tired of hearing people screeching warnings against “socialized medicine”. Medicine that’s socialized? What does that mean?
It means having a society that takes care of its own people when they get sick. What the heck is so bad about that, for goodness sakes?
We certainly don’t have that kind of society now. What we have now is a society where insurance company bureaucrats ration medical care, sitting on panels that ultimately make life and death decisions about people’s lives, based on what’s profitable rather than what people actually need.
So, you know what? I would rather have socialized medicine than depend on anti-social insurance any longer.
This “socialized” business is all about “hot button” words. (Nice button btw).
Definitions:
democracy – a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections. (As long as our government has the Constitution, the U.S. will be a democracy reguardless of the social nature of its policies).
socialized – to adapt to social needs or uses. (This has nothing to do with our form of government. It is safe to assume that any/all government initiatives are socialized).
communism – a totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of productiona system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed. (This system can be effective in community gardens as an example. As a system of government, communism has proven to be repressive).
totalitarian – of or relating to centralized control by an autocratic leader or hierarchy.
Another good button slogan might be “I support socialized medicine, not totalitarian insurance”.
Thanks for the definitions “Remarkable” but you still don’t understand the problem.
Government involvement just makes everything more expensive. And less efficient.
Price out the difference between the same ‘walker’ at Walmart and the the very same model from Medicare. Guess which once is cheaper and easier to get. I’ll give you a hint: It’s the private institution that is not struggling with solvency.
Current government mandates and subsidies are the reason health care is so expensive. I am forced to buy in-state which retards competition. I am forced thru “mandates” to buy a larded up policy of things I don’t need: drug council, shrinks, hair treatment, skin care, the list goes on. Toss in the lawyers and you’ve got sky-rocketing cost.
SO… Three things we need to do: Deregulate. Abolish mandates. Tort reform. Lock in on these definitions.
if you don’t think government involvement screws things up look no farther than public schools, heavily subsidized college tuitions, and Obama’s favorite, the US Post Office!
sceptic, Medicare does not supply walkers. They provide a certain amount of funds for walkers. And Medicare probably “mandates” certain walker specs. (probably for the safty of the user). A Walmart walker, assuming it has the same “mandated” specs., being cheaper, is likely because slave (or underpaid) labor, of a company (with no pollution concerns) made it on the other side of the earth. Don’t you find it coureous the equivalent walker can be shipped here and sell for much less? Someone and/or something is getting screwed.
And let’s don’t forget the lawyers. With lawyers out of the loop, the real drivers of high costs, the insurance companies, don’t need to worry about patients over bucks. I remind you America had to make “child labor laws” to stop big business from working youngsters (14 years and younger) in sweat shops for many more hours per day than 8. Without lawyers they would do it again, I’m sure.
BTW sceptic, how does that GOP kool-aid taste? You are really sucking it up.