Comments on: Clinton Promises Universal Health Care

Says She "Learned A Lot" During Failed Health Care Effort Of Husband's Presidency

[l8c6]

scott4261, I think we have shifted to an exposure of just how extreme right our country has been heading for over two decades this past six years. No one seemed to notice that the attacks on our goverment starting with Reagan were a lie to slip private corporate interests into government under the guise of efficiency.

The great efficiency has been dismantling a true representative government and funneling wealth into people like Bill Frist's dad made billionaire by his rape of the healthcare system.

Hmm,....Reagan felt a CEO could do a better job in government than a genuine public servant. So did Mussolini.

[tejasdemo]

Can there be any doubt that Republicans are the biggest morons on the planet ?

[us_infidel]

It's bankrupt, its quality drops thru the floor, advancements wither to a fraction of what they once were - it's disasterous & plainly observable as such.
Posted by dogsoul at 02:21 PM : Mar 26, 2007

Yeah, but that's just because the "right" libs haven't been running it. See, these "enlightened American libs" are smarter than your average western european socialist. That's why it has never worked! :)

[us_infidel]

"We're going to have universal health care when I'm president %u2014 there's no doubt about that."
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.

Maybe to Obama ad wasn't so far off. Hillary, the Orwellian socialist, won't be happy until "the state" provides everything. We'll just sit there drooling on ourselves listening to her tell us how great things are. Not MY America!

[scott4261]

jwhitmann is an IMPOSTER. Not to be confused with j-whitman.

[dogsoul]

"Also if you think this is communist in the sense of soviet communist, consider that all western nations except the US must be communist then. This is absurd!"

Communism is simply a more extreme form of Socialism... and most of Europe IS Socialist - so we're talking about socialized medicine - which have proven to be disasterous & in desperate need of massive reform wherever it's been employed... It's bankrupt, its quality drops thru the floor, advancements wither to a fraction of what they once were - it's disasterous & plainly observable as such.

[willowing]

Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico has promised Universal Health Care AND a way to fund it. He's got great credentials and ideas. Wish he was being covered more.

[bigsk8fan]

"We need a Communist Revolution in the USA!" Posted by jwhitmann

In case you haven't heard, even the communist countries abandoned communism. And I would submit that the true or pure form of communism can not exist. Only existed in the forms that we saw. Similarly, absolutely true capitalism never existed. But what we have seen is pretty close.

[xsoldier2]

Looks like it is say, do, and act any it takes to get elected, she will be a conservative if she has to. Keep the little people down and make promises. That will get you elected

[zootallures2]

"wurking so hard."

Hey Bevis he said Hard...he he he he

[jwhitmann]

We need a Communist Revolution in the USA! Everbudy knows that reel Communism has never been tried.

We need to round up all republicans, neocons, etc. and send them all to re-educashun camps to teach them how to be politcaly corect. WE CANNOT TOLERATE DESENT, we need to imprison all conservatives until they convert to OUR way of thinking. When everbudy is politicaly corect and thinks like us, then we can all get along

Re-distribute monie from rich and give to the pour, that's what the rich diserve for wurking so hard. It isnt fare that people who wurk hard get payd more.

COMMUNIZE HEALTH CARE FIRST, then energy, then corporations so that everbudy works for the state.

There is no god, only the state, WE know it takes a village!

Long live the gloreus peeples republic of amerika

[zootallures2]

Bush and the Republicans are in the way to any progress in the US. Bush and Cheney should be impeached. Voters should have to pay a $1000.00 fee to register as a Republican.
Posted by tejasdemo at 01:56 PM : Mar 26, 2007

A Republican Tax... LMAO!!!!
I like it!!!! You too funny...respek!

[tejasdemo]

Bush and the Republicans are in the way to any progress in the US. Bush and Cheney should be impeached. Voters should have to pay a $1000.00 fee to register as a Republican.

[zootallures2]

But what is she going to do about the 60 foot sea gulls in New York? .... lol.

Or did Cheney shoot it down in Shanksville next to the giant rabbit hole?

[cadmantwo]

As usual, the problem with conservatives is that they are so d*mn*d expensive. Free physicals and tests are way cheaper than major surgery. Free office visits are way cheaper than emergency room visits. But, we can't have any of that "free" stuff because the only thing we can have is a free market.

Nevermind the anecedotal evidence, the fact is that we Americans pay more for health care per capita than any other "advanced" country. Further, by any measure, we fall behind the others in quality and effectiveness. (E.G.: Just check out infant mortality rates.)

Worst of all, most of the people standing side-by-side with big medicine and big insurance are working against their own best interests. One way or another, we already pay the bills for those who can't. Wake up people! You're not only paying for it, you're paying more for less than you would in Canada, Europe or Japan!

[scott4261]

Our founding fathers made sure that our government does not veer too far from the center of public opinion. And when it does, a shift is inevitable. The balance of powers as outlined in the U.S. Constitution guarantees this. We have shifted to the right in the last six years, so a shift to the left is inevitable.

Some form of universal health care is inevitable because the majority of the public demand it. But the balance of powers will prevent whatever form it takes from tacking too far to the left - which is precisely why a SINGLE PAYER universal health care system is not likely to ever be a reality in the United States.

[perception5]

Promises.........Promises...... our 110th "Do-Nothing" Congress also promised the "poor people" that there would be an increase in the minimum wage...........yet as of today........no increase!............. plenty of non-binding Iraq resolutions........ failed legislation for their mob-run union buddies.......
In 2008 Americans WILL vote this Congress out...... according to latest Gallup Poll only 28% of Americans approve of THIS Congress......despite the best efforts of our corrupt liberal MSM wolfpack to "prop" their fellow pal Dems up........... sad indeed.

[scott4261]

I've made it clear that Hillary, in particular, is not the president I would want. And I think she would accomplish little in this area because she has already proven to be too divisive with this issue.

47 million people in this country are without any kind of insurance coverage, many in that number make too much for any kind of government assistance but they cannot afford to maintain insurance and they wind up without any insurance at all...and praying to God that they don't get sick or have a catastrophic illness which will wipe them out. That is the reality and the demand to take care of this issue is simply too large for any politician to ignore.

I support John Edwards plan on this issue, because I believe he is the most realistic in his approach. Sure, taxes may have to be raised, and most will probably be on the top 2% that Bush has coddled over the last 6 years.

Universal health care will certainly happen in some form in the United States. It would most certainly be working with insurance supplements from private companies. That seems to be the basis of Edwards's approach and I agree with him. Now, I work FOR an insurance company and I can tell you that preparations are already being made to adapt for this eventuality. It is going to happen in some form. You can bet on it.

[jebby_one]

We should just enroll all Americans in the same health care plan provided to the President, and to members of Congress & the Supreme Court.

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How about starting with fair pricing where providers charge everyone the same $$ for the same service.

Imagine if they sold food like they sell health care? First you'd have to have food insurance. A poor *** without food insurance would then get charged $14.00 for a hamburger while those with the right kind of food insurance would get the same hamburger for $1.50. Meanwhile those whose food insurance was paid for by their employers would get a free ride on taxes while the poor *** without the food insurance would see his taxes being used to subsidize the tax free food insurance.

[forthepeaple]

Any president who says, I don't care, or I will not respond to what the people of this country are saying about Iraq or anything else, or I don't care what the Congress does, I am going to proceed %u2014 if a president really believes that, then there are %u2014 what I was pointing out, there are ways to deal with that,"

SO WHY HAVEN'T YOU IN CONGRESS STARTED IMPEACHMENT THEN..

YOU ALL SAY YOU TALK THE TALK. LETS SEE IT..I DONT BELEIVE ANY OF YOU DOWN IN WASHINGTON HAS WHAT IT TAKES TO PULL THE TRIGGER..

BUT I DO KNOW SOMEONE WILLING TO DO IT AT LEASE HE IS A AMERICAN VET READY TO TAKE CHARGE OF THE MESS THAT YOU AND THIS PRESIDENT HAS PUT AMERICA IN....HIS NAME IS DAVID A BELANGER, SEND HIM A NOTE AT [e-mail] HES AMERICAS CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT.SO GET IT OUT IN THE WEB.