Comments on: ObamaCare and Mission Creep: Why health care reform will end up covering much more than you think.

By: doc4care

doc4care — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:46:44 +0000

I agree, gofudge. Americans lack the social evolution essential to caring for others via gov’t. However, they’re frequently noted to be the most generous in charitable donations. Most Americans distrust gov’t instead of the insurance co’s: a critical mind-set difference from most Europeans. This despite the counter-intuitive ^logic^, they vote against their own self-interest. Are they fully educated in this? No.
*A well informed citizenry^ is sorely lacking in US policy; corruption rules.

By: jmatt926

jmatt926 — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:49:08 +0000

@ doc4care,

Judging from how you spoke about Americans, as if you yourself were excluded, allows me to assume you are not an American. It follows that you most likely know next to nothing about how Americans actually think, you must only know what the media has told you, and, therefore, you are no better than even these hypothetical “unevolved” Americans you have spoken so disdainfully of.

So before you judge an entire nation so quickly, realize your opinion on this means absolutely nothing.

By: kev3d

kev3d — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:01:51 +0000

Pay for itself? You realize Medicare and Medicaid are not only broke, but cost far more than what was originally estimated? So why not tack on yet another government run ponzi scheme and see how that goes.

By: WhiteHatBobby

WhiteHatBobby — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:43:56 +0000

And TARP wasn’t the only thing used to “bail out” automakers. As I learned, the “real goal” of seizing GM and Chrysler was that neither automaker had what was mandated in the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act — the tiny and electric cars. Ford asked the feds for $6 billion to make such, and the real goal was to win liberals’ War on SUV’s by seizing opponents of trucks.

By: LLCoolPass

LLCoolPass — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:10:03 +0000

no, european countries are analogous to states like New Jersey. the federal government is responsible to the us constitution. the constitution does not have any provision to allow health care nor the federal reserve. do you totally awesome europeans learn that in your flawless education ?

By: Christoppher1994

Christoppher1994 — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:16:03 +0000

that’s kind of ironic how you say we “lack evolved” when you yourself are an American. Speak for yourself but I am not “lacking evolution” or “uneducated” move to France if you think that they are doing the right thing.

By: Christoppher1994

Christoppher1994 — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:41:30 +0000

The only reason you Scandinavian states are technically live a better lifestyle than the us is for 3 reasons:
1) you sit on MASSIVE oil reserves, giving your country HUGE subsidies
2) you have a small population of people who are ethnically similar (you are all Finnish)
3) Because of #2, you tend to work better and have lower crime rates.
The U.S. is much bigger, more culturally and ethnically more diverse, and our economies are much different. you cannot say “it works”

By: Christoppher1994

Christoppher1994 — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:27:01 +0000

I’m just waiting for the democrats to wage full scale smear wars on each other. That’s where the fun begins in this “debate” (yes, I know they already do, however these will be way worse)

By: Colourbend

Colourbend — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:40:37 +0000

Wanna hear a joke? Congress. HA

By: doc4care

doc4care — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:19:32 +0000

@jmatt926
excluded only in the sense that I’m well informed, having personal/professional knowledge of medical care in the US.
And I repeat the point of the post: a
WELL INFORMED CITIZENRY is sorely lacking in MY country, the USA. The majority of US have little or no knowledge of the issues in this debate; WORSE: they’re MIS-informed. This subset, frequently poor, uneducated, is far more likely to express resistance to REFORM – failing to understand no change means economic disaster 4 USA