Obama's plan says he will "Work with employers to supply healthcare" as long as employers pay a "meaningful" portion of the premiums. "Meaningful portion" What does that mean? It means it's not going to happen. If he could legislate that employers provide insurance under those conditions, the number of businesses closing under the financial pressure would cripple our economy.
The inevitable consequences of socialized medicine.
We will see the rise of privately run clinics owned by Physicians that treat the wealthy and the privately insured. These places will charge more, pay Doctors more, and have the latest advances in equipment. These clinics will attract the smartest and most talented doctors and surgeons from our "free" hospitals. If you have Government insurance, you will never see them.
Yes, there are problems with our medical system, but in an emergency you will be seen and treated properly with or without a nickel in your pocket. You will be expected to pay, but why shouldn't you? More to the point, why should I pay for you?
Socialized medicine will give you're a free liver transplant or cancer treatment, if you live long enough while waiting your turn.
Making the Medical system paperless? That would require the authoring of a web based software package in many different versions that would speak to the many different disciplines in the medical field so as not to share or needlessly replicate sensitive medical information. Most Americans are afraid to shop online and now we are going to ask them to supply all their personal information to a Government run database with literally 10's of thousands of user names and passwords distributed throughout the medical community?
The following is a paragraph from a Washington Post article titled "VA Takes the Lead in Paperless Care".
"Since 1999, the VA's 155 hospitals, 881 clinics, 135 nursing homes and 45 rehabilitation centers have been linked by a universal medical records network. It allows any authorized person to look at 5.3 million patients' records -- everything from a nurse's note written during a hospital stay, to the result of a blood test drawn at a clinic visit, to the moving-picture film of a coronary angiogram done in a cardiology lab."
Any "Authorized" person, or hacker! Is this the place you want the records for your last PAP smear? AIDS test? STD treatment? Phyc exam? Think your information is safe from disgruntled employees? From hackers? Forever? You will have no choice but participate.
"Stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship our jobs overseas". Like it or not we are competing in a global economy. To stay competitive companies must lower their costs. Unfortunately that means finding less expensive work forces, less restrictive controls, and lower tax rates. Giving tax breaks does not cause companies to ship jobs overseas; it is encouragement to keep them here!
If you vote for one over the other because you "like" one candidate or "hate" the other instead of voting the issues, you do us all an extreme disservice. You should not be allowed to vote.
Dislike Bush? Me too. I also hate hitting my foot with a hammer but that does not mean hitting my head instead is the answer!
All that being said, does McCain have all, or any of the answers? Maybe. Maybe not. The point is Obama's plans will hurt this country.
Before Iraq, when every Congress member and US Senator were convinced (through lies, miscommunication, or arrant information) O'bama says he was against the war, I would like to know one thing. What information did this Junior State Senator from Illinois know that the entire US Senate & House did not know and how did he know it? What did this man that wants to be our President base his decision on?
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