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Home Front: Politix
Edwards Backs Mandatory Preventive Care
2007-09-03
TIPTON, Iowa - Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal health care proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care.
Well, whose gonna pay for all of this? Not to mention freedom of choice over one's medical condition.
Progressives don't believe in 'freedom of choice'. They believe that all goodness comes from the State, and that therefore the primary obligation of all citizens is to the State. Their heritage isn't the American revolution, you see, it's the French one ...
"It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care," he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. "If you are going to be in the system, you can't choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK."
Can I opt out of the System? Or is that mandatory, too?
It's the System, Deacon. The System is not optional. Think inside the box, folks.
It'll just feel like you opted out when you have to wait four years to get your hip replaced ...
He noted, for example, that women would be required to have regular mammograms in an effort to find and treat "the first trace of problem." Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, announced earlier this year that her breast cancer had returned and spread.
Tough noogies, people. The Government will require you to have these tests. What else will the Government require? Pre-birth testing for birth defects or hereditary diseases? Will they requie abortions for those fetuses deemed inferior?
Or for fetuses deemed superior?
One of their heroes is Margaret Sanger; connect the dots ...
Edwards said his mandatory health care plan would cover preventive, chronic and long-term health care. The plan would include mental health care as well as dental and vision coverage for all Americans.
The key phrase here is "Mandatory" This means everyone will be required to participate.
"The whole idea is a continuum of care, basically from birth to death," he said.
The Government will have control of your life from Birth to Death. Is he really stupid enough to not recognize the ramifications of this? I think he is.
It's only mandatory for one of the Americas. The America he lives in will have a different set of rules. Always has, you know ...
The former North Carolina senator said all presidential candidates talking about health care "ought to be asked one question: Does your plan cover every single American? Because if it doesn't they should be made to explain what child, what woman, what man in America is not worthy of Government control health care," he said. "Because in my view, everybody is worth health care."

Edwards said his plan would cost up to $120 billion a year for statrters, a cost he proposes covering by ending President Bush's tax cuts to people who make more than $200,000 per year.
Yup. kill the economy and make people dependent on The Government.
Edwards, who has been criticized by some for calling on Americans to be willing to give up their SUVs while driving one, acknowledged Sunday that he owns a Ford Escape hybrid SUV, purchased within the year, and a Chrysler Pacifica, which he said he has had for years. "I think all of us have to move, have to make progress," he said. "I'm not holier-than-thou about this. ... I'm like a lot of Americans, I see how serious this issue is and I want to address it myself and I want to help lead the nation in the right direction."
Except for me. I already have mine and refuse to give it up. All you "Little People" need to understand you are incapable of determing for yourself what is best for you.
He said he would not buy another SUV in the future. The Ford Escape, the first hybrid SUV on the market, gets an estimated 36 mpg in the city and 31 mpg on the highway.
Wow. He's really saving. How many times does he fly Coach?
Posted by:Deacon Blues

#25  Too stupid to even comment on.
Posted by: newc   2007-09-03 23:58  

#24  Americas health problem is Lawyers!

Most of our problems are due to Lawyers!
Posted by: Natural Law   2007-09-03 19:30  

#23  Rantburgers should contemplate time in a soviet style mental hospital.

Much like time spent reading KOS. No thank you.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-09-03 18:21  

#22  Interesting that it covers mental health as well. Classic leftist theology is that those who disagree with them are crazy.

Rantburgers should contemplate time in a soviet style mental hospital.
Posted by: DoDo   2007-09-03 16:22  

#21  Americas health problem is Lawyers!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2007-09-03 15:47  

#20  Stalin never trusted doctors. But then, hasn't Edwards made a career suing doctors? If you were a doctor, how would you feel about treating a guy like that? How many good doctors have quit because they couldn't pay their malpractice insurance? How many would quit if they had to work for the government? Why would they go into medicine in the first place if they knew they wouldn't be able to make a decent living? And then we would be recruiting doctors from Cuba and Pakistan.
Posted by: Abu Uluque6305   2007-09-03 14:47  

#19  I heard a story about how Joe Stalin once told one of his generals that he needed surgery. The general didn't think so but had no choice but to undergo the prescribed procedure. I can't remember how it turned out.
Posted by: Abu Uluque6305   2007-09-03 14:36  

#18  G'ah the link got nuked. Here it is: Patient Safety as Job One
Posted by: Tony (UK)   2007-09-03 14:19  

#17  For crying out loud, just look over the pond to the NHS. Double the money spent on it since ZaNuLabour came to power. You're ok if you happen to have the right post (zip) code and if you happen to have something that is one of their 'targets'. But otherwise, forget it. We're letting in Doctors from all around the world (many with very dubious credentials - remember the filth that tried to kill people in Glasgow? - they were Doctors) because the older Doctors left in disgust at the way they were being treated (amongst other reasons).

Total control - that's all they want, and that's all they'll accept.

Throw this out, throw it out, kill it, drive a stake through its heart and then burn it. You don't need this. Want to know what's going to have the most effect on American's health care over the next few years? Medicare's decision to stop paying out on 'preventable errors' . As they say, RTWT.

Oh, and anyone who pays $1000+ for a haircut that looks like the one he's got can't be taken seriously.
Posted by: Tony (UK)   2007-09-03 14:17  

#16  I reckon they want to won people, not govern them.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2007-09-03 13:00  

#15  Totalitarianism comes soooo easily to leftist-liberals. No point in debating the issue with them though. They feeeeel they know what's best for those whom they govern.
Posted by: Mark Z   2007-09-03 12:05  

#14  It'll be nice to have the govt. force you to appear for your prostate probing.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2007-09-03 11:09  

#13  Edwards and Democrats... stay off of my body... er... ovaries... er... whatever!!
Posted by: Javiling White6091   2007-09-03 10:18  

#12  My brother-in-law's dad,Ershel, had a triple bypass 20 years ago when he was 60 years old.At 80 years of age, He went to the doctor for a check up, and the heart doctor told him they might have to go in again and do more work on his heart.Ershel reminded the doctor that at the time of the surgery he was promised that the triple by-pass would last him his lifetime.The doctor replied "I know Ershal,but to tell you the truth, I didn't expect you to live this long!"
Posted by: darrylq   2007-09-03 10:04  

#11  That too.... same as in 'Glorious' Cuba.... :)

Not to mention the number who die from mere visit to a 'Clinic' as Procopius2 pointed out.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2007-09-03 09:13  

#10  You'll get a lot of people dying waiting to get into "peeling-paint 'health' clinics with bug-infested blood soaked beds"
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2007-09-03 09:06  

#9  But... but... but...

We'll get that top-rated Cuban style health care won't we?

(mean the elite (like Edwards) get top rated and the rest of us get the peeling-paint 'health' clinics with bug-infested blood soaked beds....)
Posted by: CrazyFool   2007-09-03 08:21  

#8  ...patients develop 1.7 million infections in hospitals each year, and it says those infections cause or contribute to the death of 99,000 people a year – about 270 a day.” - http://www.timegoesby.net/weblog/2007/08/medicare-and-ho.html

If you kill them off fast enough, your costs will eventually start to 'stabilize'. The more you force into the environment, the more opportunities for lawyers like Mr. Edwards.
Posted by: Procopius2k    2007-09-03 08:06  

#7  So, Sen. Edwards, when will we nationalize legal services?
Posted by: no mo uro   2007-09-03 07:08  

#6  Don't go down the route of Government "heath care" it basically means that the state nationalises everyone's body.

There are ways for the state to subsidise healthCARE without owning people, but that removes power from politicians, and they won't go for those ideas.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2007-09-03 04:23  

#5  This plan has Edwards-style lawsuits written all through it. He'll take second or third in the primaries, and the honourable Senator Clinton will have to find someone she doesn't despise to take the vice president slot on the ticket. I've recently read that Democrats involved in the House and Senate races -- and those concerned about the results -- are starting to worry how many seats she's going to lose for them.
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-09-03 03:36  

#4  This POS trial lawyer has a chance, don't underestimate him, the other lawyers will flock to him and bury him in support and money. The Dems want you to focus on Hillary and Obama when this is the turd they want to run.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2007-09-03 01:41  

#3  Y'know this would really bother me if he had a chance in hell of winning. Right now all he basically is is Kucinich with money.
Good comic relief though...
Posted by: tu3031   2007-09-03 01:10  

#2  Channeling Dr. Mengola convinced me...you're either in, or you're expendable.
Posted by: Phinater Thraviger   2007-09-03 00:13  

#1  he owns a Ford Escape hybrid SUV, purchased within the year, and a Chrysler Pacifica

It's OK, he's part of the "other" America -- he can afford to buy Carbon Indulgences.
Posted by: DMFD   2007-09-03 00:07  

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