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Genesis1315

Genesis1315

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Why do we need a national health care system?

Why, when I purchase a home within my means, and have kept up on the payments, am I not receiving cash incentives or tax credits for being a responsible member of society?

Why do people think that writing in a candidate is throwing away a vote?

More might come (and this could be classified as a rant)

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Genesis1315 said:
Why do we need a national health care system?

Why, when I purchase a home within my means, and have kept up on the payments, am I not receiving cash incentives or tax credits for being a responsible member of society?

Why do people think that writing in a candidate is throwing away a vote?

More might come (and this could be classified as a rant)

Gen
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1. Probably a good essay question. Let me ask you this, in your private system you pay insurance for certain coverage. Lets say you have a heart attack at 40 years old that costs 50,000 to the insurance carrier. What happens now? Does your insurance company continue to cover you? If they do, will they cover another heart attack? What happens to your premiums? What happens if your premiums sky rocket and you can't afford them?

2. Is being financially savy something that should be rewarded by the government or something that should be rewarded by the financial sector?

3. I don't know. Maybe there is a reason to consider strategic voting to ensure certain policy makers don't get into office.
 
1.) Mine - yes, they do. As far as premiums, ours are negotiated by the employer in a block manner - our premiums don't change.

2.) I think his point is more to the point of...why are people that weren't fiscally responsible being "rewarded" more financially, particularly when we're being harmed arguably more by deflated values and if you go with McCain's proposal to allow those in trouble to re-fi based on a *lower appraised value* then we're getting hit twice by the ugly stick.

3.) Because write-in candidates typically (i.e. 99% of the time) don't have sufficient support to garner a relevant percentage of the vote to make them viable. In said 99% of the cases, a write-in is tantamount to a vote against your second choice by removing a vote from their pool, or equivalently a vote for the guy you absolutely didn't want in.
 
1. its a privilege not a right and people get that confused.

2. Its not the governments responsibility to reward citizens

3. Strategically its foolish to write in a candidate and let a political candidate that you dont agree with take the election with ease. I would do a write in, however Im voting mccain so that we dont become the Socialist (and eventually Communist) States of America
 
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1. its a privilege not a right and people get that confused.
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I don't think it's necessarily a privilege to not have the option of going to the doctor if you're sick, but it's not the government's problem. The medical industry is just...I won't even go into it, I've had good experiences with it and bad. Honestly, I don't think a majority of doctors in ANY field deserve to be paid at all, by a private group, a single person, or the government. Not to take away from the few good ones, but I've personally been prescribed claritin and the like for my allergies, which turned out to be bronchitis.
 
Interesting discussion on a comparison between the US and Canadian systems can be found here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_and_American_health_care_systems_compared

If you take away anything from this little article it should be that the US health care system is not entirely without government involvement and that Canadian system is not social health care.

Right near the beginning of the article you should see quite planly the only difference between the two is in Health Insurance. That is the government collects the insurance via tax and remits it to the doctors who operate via providing medical care in a private system. Where as in the US, you pay a third party insurance agent who then pays according to the benefits.

The second biggest difference is that in Canada, everybody is covered where as in the US, there is an average of 15 or 16% of the people who go without coverge.
 
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the second question was only to show how foolish the government is being. I completely agree with Atown's answer to question 2

(and number 1)
 
1) I think that in the world's most admired nation, we can afford to help out our fellow man, just a little bit.

2) I agree that people who 'embellished' their mortgage application should not necessarily pass go with out having any repercussions.

3) It is not throwing a vote away as long as you believe it is serving a purpose.
 
1) I think that in the world's most admired nation, we can afford to help out our fellow man, just a little bit.
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I completely agree that we should help our fellow man, but I just don't think that government should mandate it.
 
Is national the same word as Universal?

Watching Sicko (which I own), Americas advisor's saying that "Universal Health Care" is bad, its such crap. (can i say that?)

They got Universal Police, Libraries, other stuff but not Health...

They were also saying having Universal Health is like being a Communist, such as Russia and Cuba. :(

When it comes to Health Care in US, its just sad really, they need important and life-saving surgeries but the Insurance companies deny/reject the coverage.

I'm basing all this from the film, Sicko.

I do not know anything about the US, as I've only been to Seattle, once.

But if I had to travel to US, such as CGA's Convention, first, I'd buy Insurance here in case I had a problem or emergency in the US.
I'm not gonna pay $5,000 just for a broken arm and staying in the hospital.
 
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government paying for my dental, doctor, and hospital bills... always. That in my mind sums up national health care.

now I agree with supplemental stuff because there are people who need it. but not an entire system for every person for every ailment
 
You don't pay for them either in the US. You pay insurance company for that and the insurance companies tend to be as powerful as any government could be. Except insurance company provide health insurance for their own profit, not for your well being.
 
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