Arpig
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The problem here is, the deficit. Financially, the United States is on a runaway train headed over a cliff. We can't pay for the social programs we have now, Social Security and Medicare are fast running out of money, and this vast new entitlement initiative will just be adding more fuel to the fire without finding any realistic kind of a way to pay for it all. That's why I'm saying that after everyone is on Obama's single payer system, the sacrifices that will potentially have to be made in order to keep it going are dreadful to have to consider. We can't pay for the programs we have now, and so its really the wrong time to be adding any more to the problem. Well, if Obama and the Dems in Congress had the balls to do what they should (government single-payer system) then everybody would suddenly not have to pay the $100-$500 (or more) every month, and businesses would no longer have to pay whatever it is they pay per employee per month. All of a sudden there is a fuck of a lot of money available to pay the premiums for the government run health insurance. Nobody in their right mind is suggesting that the costs will not have to be paid, but just imagine what a great group plan you would have if it had 300+ million members...that is what single-payer is, it is health insurance, just like what you have now, only cheaper overall. Single-payer will save everybody in the US money in the long run. It has done so in every country where it has been instituted, so there is no reason to believe it will not do so in the US.
< Message edited by Arpig -- 8/9/2009 2:55:21 PM >
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