I have re-posted an article at BlogHer about why I don’t think universal health care is the solution to our problem. I invite you to leave your comments and add to the discussion.
Update: Well, true to form, the liberals have started with the name-calling. So far I’ve been told I’m condescending, heartless, and Dickensian. All because I believe that government has no role in choosing my health care and voiced my opinion. The facts I brought up were largely ignored in favor of emotional arguments.
Now’s our chance ladies. Care to add your voice?
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Hmm. Not sure if I’m up for being shredded to bits tonight. Just got off the airplane. Gonna let it digest for a few minutes!
Yikes. I hope you don’t hate me for what I just started…
Ok, I added something to the “discussion.”
Phew.
Ok, THAT was exhausting. And here is the strangest thing, I actually care a great deal about the issue, but those comments, and then having to tailor MY comment to relate, etc., was just EXHAUSTING, and it makes me not want to engage those people any more. Kudos to you for daring to weigh in on the issue! You are a stronger woman than I am.
You state so clearly what I believe.
I feel very strongly about this issue but I am not able to succintly clarify why I do not want the government to be involved in my healthcare decisions. However, I am able to end most “Big Government” arguments about healthcare, retirement, and family policy by asking if they would want the same people that run DHS or Family Services to be put in charge? The response is normally that DHS and Family Services is state run not federally governed. Whatever, it is all ineffecient and ineffective. Now I am the one getting emotional.
Oh, God bless you for sticking your neck out. I feel the same as you but just hate getting slaughtered by the lefties. I find it interesting that many of the people that are for govt. run healthcare have never actually lived with govt. run healthcare. I have an employee here who is now a US Citizen but was born and raised in Canada and his dad died waiting to have “free” open heart surgery. It’s free….but the wait is long….months or years. Didn’t cost him anything except his life. And also, we do have govt. run healthcare for some…. it’s called Medicade and Medicare. And you see how screwed up those two things are. Ugh.
Interesting conversation, actually quite enlightening. Sorry I can’t contribute. I don’t feel qualified.
To put it simply, when you ask someone for help, you are at your benefactor’s mercy. I really don’t want to be at the mercy of the government.
When you willfully hand over a responsibility, you lose a freedom. Period.
I’ll choose freedom any day, no matter how difficult the road ahead.
My husband says that anyone who wants to see what government run healthcare would look like should go to a VA hospital.