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The healthcare bill is supposed to reduce the deficit and create jobs!?...and here I thought it was to help insure proper, affordable, equitable healthcare for all Americans.









Edited, Jul 21st 2009 4:09pm by Elinda

You're an idiot.

I live outside the US, you stupid ****.

Well, it would provide healthcare that cannot be had by tens of millions of Americans right now. That would save families. It would free up companies that need to offer some kind of medical care but have no chance to offer alternatives (semi-public places like universities, for example), so that would help business. And if the 1-to-20 dollar figure of preventative care can be taken as true, and right now millions of Americans don't have preventative care, it can also help the economy. But as Joph said... it's not a job creation bill. It's a health care bill. At the end of the day it is to help millions of Americans who cannot receive even basic treatment... even if they already work multiple jobs.

So instead of only certain people qualifying everyone qualifies.

It's interesting to read your posts, because you describe this horror system that actually reflects the system you have right now, and doesn't reflect any actual implementation of government health care.

Good question. Only an idiot would assume that.

I shall respond.

Capitalism is great. It's awesome. But it's not sufficient, in and of itself to insure adequate and equitable distribution of necessary services. Two points:

First - The market of medicine, if you will, is flawed. It's not a free-flowing supply-demand relationship. The highly specialized nature of the services and the in depth research required for products restricts the market from delivering a fairly priced product to all consumers with demand.

Second - Healthcare is deemed a necessity by our society. Indeed, it's pretty easy to see how our very neighborhoods could suffer if healthcare is NOT available. So, you see it's an essential good - like food, water, shelter, education, security. It's the governments responsiblity to insure a minimal sustainable level of healthcare to all citizens.

Clearly, things are not working. Government led healthcare has worked in many other countries. We'd be foolish to continue to give the drug companies and health insurance companies more and more money for less and less in return. This should have been deal with more than a decade ago. I gotta believe I elected that guy that could make some good decisions for this country. The research I've done, and the people I've talked to have bolstered my opinion that what we need are more public options - which seems to be what the latest dem plan is all about.