Socialized Medicine.

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The House approved a bill to expand public health care to as many as five million U.S. children - mainly of working poor families - by using funds from elevated tobacco taxes. This bill is expected to be vetoed by our glorious leader, Capital G, who states, "When you expand eligibility... you're really beginning to open up an avenue for people to switch from private insurance to the government."

To which I say, what's bad about that? I mean, of course, aside from the fact that it would impede privatized health care companies (which are a fucking joke) from making more money off of already disenfranchised children and their families. We wouldn't want to cheat those poor health care companies out of their right to charge people an arm and leg for refusing to do anything when their arm and leg actually needs some medical attention.

Fucking pork barrel bullshit.

And trying to scare people away from supporting this measure with the use of the phrase "socialized medicine" is just low.

I mean, personally, I don't want health care companies to make any more money. I want children to not have to die from infected teeth because their parents cannot afford health care for them.

Here's an article on the subject:
Children's Health Bill Approved By House (Washington Post)

Comments

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I totally agree that there is nothing wrong with socialized medicine. Look at Canada, England, etc. But you just know the big insurance companies aren't going to be happy with this, and are going to do everything in their power to get rid of it (G will probably take care of it for them anyway, so never mind).
A few years back, before I was diagnosed with high blood pressure and diabetes, I applied to Blue Cross for individual health insurance. Their reply, sight unseen, was that I was "too sick to get health insurance" because I "weighed too much for my height".
Sums it all up, doesn't it?