If the GOP hates government-run healthcare, why aren't they introducing a...

[Edward]

...bill to end Medicare and the VA? Surely elderly and military voters would reward them for taking a stand against socialism?

 

[firewomen]

There was a bill introduced several weeks ago to do just that and you know what, not one republican in the Senate voted yes for that .*

 

[Reporter]

They've already sabotaged Medicare by forcing it to pay top dollar to the drug pushers, and they had the military rejecting disability claims with the "pre-existing condition" scam they learned from their crony pigs in the insurance racket. Good thing they didn't get their hands on health "reform."

 

[alby]

Veterans affairs are not welfare. Military men earned it with service.

 

[Patches O'Houlihan]

So by your logic a massively mismanaged federal program should be followed by another massive government failure?

What's your point, sport?

 

[Liberal AssKicker]

The only other alternative you can think of is to submit a different bill?

HEY MORON! HOW ABOUT THIS ONE:

Let the doctors conduct the medical care and get the government out completely?

HEY! What a thought!

 

[carmenlafond]

Some of the ones being duped are being used by big business insurance and they don't know it. "ween" good one.

 

[Mabelline]

Because their still still working on the Whine Bill!

 

[Captain Awesome]

Because cutting a program like that is political suicide...too many people are dependent on it now. They need to find a way to ween people off those programs.

 

[Fakename]

I would consider privatization of that. My grandfather literally ran it, and felt private care was better and cheaper.

 

[Lone Marlin - Airborne]

Well, now, THERE's a Question!

If people hate it when the price of tap-water rises to $50/gal due to a ruptured pipeline, who should pay that $50/gal -- to protect their children from dehydration?

People?

Government?

Or is this even the issue?

Fix the burst pipeline.

Bring water prices back to reasonable levels.

ONLYfollowing so completed an agreement may a party be deemed wise to entrust the generation at their heels to survive those threats which naturally arise against injustices among nations summoned by Conscious and Free Will.

But there exist few cultures so capable.

Name Them.

....

 

[Bernie R]

Haven't you heard? The Dems are running the show in Washington.
The Republicans are only on lookers.

 

[Steve M]

The GOP has several plans to fix the problems in the health care system. Problem is, people like you aren't paying attention.

 

[Kiki]

Ha ha. They know it would be political suicide.

 

[DAR]

At this point people have paid all their lives into medicare and the VA is very different. Providing for the armed forces is the only part of health care where the federal government actually has constitutional power.

I agree with Captain Awesome that people need to be weened off of this, but it will be generational. It isn't as if someone no longer working can suddenly earn enough to handle this differently. I think Ron Paul's plan to cut the empire to finance social security and medicare for vested interests is really the only way to go. For everyone else, costs would actually DROP if we went the health savings account route, instead.

Tell me, poster, if Obama so loves the American people, how come he is sending hundreds of billions more of our money overseas as aid (not to mention as arms) but when it comes to saving medicare from bankruptcy the best he can come up with is cutting its funds and rationing the care our seniors get? Why isn't living up to actual DEBT to our seniors more important than giving more money to the IMF?

 

[vance1167]

they would if they could...

they did everything to oppose the Democrats expanding healthcare to the millions of children not covered by Medicaid (S-CHIP).

 

[as.erwin]

On the flip side... considering how well those work... Why liberals ENDORSE government run health care?

 

[Evie B]

If you haven't noticed the Democrats have a majority in all 3 Houses . As they have this majority, they will not allow another bill or idea to get off the table. There are several other potential bills out there and there are many other idea's that have been suggested but the Dem's will not allow any other bills or idea's

 

[cfc9elc]

You are so uninformed it's not even funny. Bills have been presented to overhaul medicare and medicaid. It's the liberal left that goes out fearmongering everytime something is tried.

Medicare and medicaid is a prime example of how govt run programs are not effecient or effective. Public Schools, the DMV, the Post Office, are also examples. The military is effective but not very effecient.

I say abolish the Dept of Education. Privatize all schools and make them compete for business. It would result in a much better educated population. .

 

[8***L]

Once cancer invades your body it's hard to get rid of it!