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Kennedy to push for universal health coverage

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Posted by gorb 2007-01-11 05:57|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Government-financed health care = rationing. When Sen. Kennedy renounces the use of his congressional health plan and agrees to use only the services Medicare allows for him to consume (he's eligible), I might be persuaded he's doing more than posing.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-01-11 10:15|| 2007-01-11 10:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Very bad idea. Socialism doesn't work, there already is a safety net in place and it will become the ultimate black hole for American tax payers because in the interests of "fairness" I'm certain they'll want to cover the illegals as well. If it comes to pass I want to be on the plan the leeches in congress are on, because regardless of what they say, it will be better than anyone else's.

Posted by JerseyMike 2007-01-11 10:31|| 2007-01-11 10:31|| Front Page Top

#3 I ain't payin' for no goddamn Martians!

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-01-11 10:53|| 2007-01-11 10:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Better to have a citizens dividend (like the oil trust except for property) and let people buy their own insurance.

Posted by Zarquon Pebbles in Blairistan 2007-01-11 11:19|| 2007-01-11 11:19|| Front Page Top

#5 ..Well, frankly he can ask for NHC all he wants, He uses the Congressional health care system and will for the rest of his life - he'd impress me a LOT more if he said that as soon as it was approved, he would be switching over to it exclusively.

Not, of course, like that would happen.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-01-11 11:52|| 2007-01-11 11:52|| Front Page Top

#6 If you've been keeping up with the wild yowling of Teddy (the toad) Kennedy, you'd know this is nothing new. He's been pushing universal health care at least since 1992. He was a major instigator of Bill & Hill's "health care task force". The man needs a brain-case flush - it's getting awful rusty up there.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-01-11 15:34|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-01-11 15:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Better to have a citizens dividend (like the oil trust except for property) and let people buy their own insurance.

I'd agree with ya, ZPiB, except that any "trust fund" the Donks would create for this would be like Social Security & Medicare. Everyone pays in, and we have "excesses." Problem is there's no "lock" on those excess funds and the Congresscritters spend it like mad NOW and stuff the Treasury full of IOUs. I'd rather keep my own money and let the private sector handle my insurance.

Posted by BA 2007-01-11 17:43|| 2007-01-11 17:43|| Front Page Top

#8 You know, we've been lucky that no one has seen fit to shoot this fat, stupid, venal old bastard as were his brothers. If all of the male Kennedy spawn had been offed we would never, ever hear the end of LLL nutballs howling that the Kennedys would have saved America.

As it is, every time one of those idiot NewCamelot sycophants sits down to a keyboard, they've got the mental image of the real-life cowardly murderer to contend with as a counterbalance to their idealized conception of the Kennedy greatness. "Waitress sandwich," anyone?

Posted by mac 2007-01-11 17:46|| 2007-01-11 17:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Socialized medicine is one of the two brass rings (the other being total disarmament of private citizens) that the left knows it must grasp to convert the U.S. to Euro-style socialism.

Therefore, it must be resisted at all costs.

Posted by no mo uro 2007-01-11 17:56|| 2007-01-11 17:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Two sectors of the economy are dominated by the government, education and health care. Two sectors of the economy are totally screwed up. Guess which two.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-01-11 18:07|| 2007-01-11 18:07|| Front Page Top

#11 Beat me to it, #1 AH.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-01-11 19:29|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2007-01-11 19:29|| Front Page Top

#12 Medicine is already socialized, i.e. you are not paying for out of your pocket. Whether Blue Cross, Medicare, Tricare or any other entity but the end user pays for it, there is no incentive for the user to hold down cost, instead an incentive to demand the impossible as long as everyone else is paying for what you receive.

I think a better funding scheme is for each person to have the option control their own medical money, like an IRA account. Then they can buy the insurance appropriate to their needs or none at all. Until their consumer is directly responsible for the costs there will be no incentive to control costs.

Posted by ed 2007-01-11 19:53|| 2007-01-11 19:53|| Front Page Top

#13 Costs efficiencies/accounting will inevitably lead to Diagnostic, Treatment, Physician, and Medicinal/Presriptions, etc. standardizations, where Nurses will do what certified Physicians =Surgeons used to do. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT OUR POL ELITES WILL ALWAYS HAVE $$$ PRIVATE CARE IN SWITZERLAND, VIENNA, ETC. WHILE THE REST OF US WON'T.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-01-11 23:21|| 2007-01-11 23:21|| Front Page Top

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