The State of the Union, Health care and more lies from the President
Tarver Engineering wrote:
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>>>>>GWB: "A government-run health care system is the wrong prescription. By
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>>>>>afford coverage, we will preserve the system of private medicine that
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>>>>>America's health care the best in the world."
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>>>>There is statistical evidence such as infant mortality rates and life
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>>>>whole lot wrong with the American health care delivery system. I agree
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>>>>Bush on this (he says, holding his nose).
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>>>>On the other hand, the health *insurance* system is badly broken. It
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>>>>insurers to cherry pick, and adds extra bureacracy that costs an
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>>>>system such as Canada's. This extra money contributes nothing to health
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>>>Canada's health care system is rationed such that curable breast cancer
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>>Ours is rationed so that curable cancers and infections are a death
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>> When the middle class and a lot of hardworking people are
>>priced out of the US healthcare system, there is something wrong here.
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>Right, but that is the cost of treating AIDS.
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>> The insurance companies continue to make the same profits they always
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>Would you feel better if foggotry destroyed corporations?
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What's foggotry?
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