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No child should have to wait 65 years for health insurance.

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17 Responses to “No child should have to wait 65 years for health insurance.”

  1. What can a child do …
    What can a child do for their country if they come down with Measles Mumps Polio Pox and whatever else may come along which they can’t get inoculated for?!

  2. Ask not what you …
    Ask not what you can do for your country but what your country can do for you.

  3. I am starting to …
    I am starting to remember the song:

    “STUPID GIRL!!!! STUPID GIRL!!!!”

  4. Does our current …
    Does our current system have problems? It sure does!!! (I just referenced one cause of the problems…tying health insurance to employment.) For an excellent read on the subject of health care in America read Dr. David Gratzer’s book “The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care”

  5. Are 9 million …
    Are 9 million children currently waiting to age 65 for health insurance? Nope! Not even close! Currently most health insurance plans are tied to employment (which it should not be), so as people move in and out of the workforce their insurance coverage comes and goes too. As a result, IIRC, about half the “uninsured” are uninsured for a period of 4 months on average (not to age 65).

  6. Tye: Since you put …
    Tye: Since you put so much stock in unbridled Capitalism, you will then have to put up with the corporate world’s attack on your wallet, a sector that by law cannot place your interests ahead of its stockholders. Gov’ts are at least potentially responsible to you. The moneyed class has destroyed competition and so in my opinion, to think the US has competitive Capitalism (except for maybe selling shovels) is living in a conceptual world.

  7. Tye=TyePorter – TY= …
    Tye=TyePorter – TY=Thank You.
    The social benefits in those countries are based on the fact that they are socialist countries.
    We’re here in the US because we appreciate and enjoy the lack of gov’t in our lives, in our business and in our wallets.
    That said, the socialists here in this nation (read liberals) have caused it to be otherwise and would convert this nation to be like the rest of the world.
    Anywho – What would YOU recommend?

  8. Ty = tyeporter. …
    Ty = tyeporter. You’ll have to define republic. Going back to a laissez-faire system is always an option, but the social rest that would occur would quickly topple the regime. Tony Penn says that Americans fear their gov’t, and this accounts for the govt’s lack of concern for the population (Iraq war, health care, employee mal-treatment with little help from gov’t). I believe social benefits in other countires (Spain, France, Germany) are better than in the US, and there is less propaganda.

  9. 1) Why do you keep …
    1) Why do you keep opening with “Thank You”?
    2) Since it’s obvious that a republic should not institute social programs and the gov’t is not in the business of providing healthcare; obvious that the current condition of the healthcare system into which the gov’t has mixed itself has been corrupted – what would YOU recommend?

  10. Ty: I see gov’ts as …
    Ty: I see gov’ts as at least potentially responsible to the people but private business not so in any way. In a perfect world we would go back to a mercantile system where CEO’s could not use corporations as a protecter against egregious, anti-social activity. We need private business no doubt, but they consistently demonstrate their irresponsibility with important matters, e.g. health care services. Excuse my liberal knee-jerkedness.

  11. “If nobody helps …
    “If nobody helps them will they have to wait…”

    If they get off their butts and cover themselves, they won’t have to wait for somebody else to take care of them, they will only have to wait until they’re 18 unless their parents get off their butts…
    If I wanted healthcare, I sure as heck wouldn’t expect (force) my fellow Americans to pay for it FOR ME.
    I can take care of myself, my arms and legs aren’t broken.

  12. It would seem the …
    It would seem the US is the wisest (and only Republic) of the “rich countries”.
    So what is your solution?
    Should we abandon our Republic status and move towards socialism?
    Should we create another social program like the public education system, where half the people dicate what the whole are taught and the other half are forced against their will and desire to support it through taxes?

  13. ty: Well all the …
    ty: Well all the rich countries minus US have UHC. If you want a for-rofit system, then the gov’t would have to regulate fees and set standards that forced protection for all, and all loop holes to deny coverage would have to be closed. The Health Insurance companies have brought all this on themselves in their attempts to grab as much profit as possible at the expense of US citizenry, by exercising a plan to reduce services as much as possible for a greater profit margin.

  14. So what is your …
    So what is your solution?
    I agree with you: I’ve no need for a system that will have teams in place working to either deny me benefits or dictate the circumstances under which I’ll receive those benefits.

  15. ty: “…start …
    ty: “…start allowing A. to provide and pay for their own health care…” The private health ins. industry has teams in place working on reasons to deny you benefits. Don’t you get it. It doesn’t work because profits and health are a horrible combo. But then if you want to line the pockets of those who are screwing you, feel free. It’s your money after all.

  16. you’re just like …
    you’re just like every other politician susie! full of lies! JK lolol

  17. If we’d stop …
    If we’d stop expecting the Gov’t to provide health insurance and start allowing Americans to provide and pay for their own health care, parents could afford to provide for their own families.

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