How many overcrowded one time free clinics will have to be held in order to open the eyes

[WCGreen]

of what is so wrong about our so-called health care system?

In the rural south, deep in urban LA and now in New Orleans, thousands of people with no access to regular check-up based health care showed up and waited for hours just for a chance to be in proximity of a doctor. Nurses and aides handed out most of the care, but there were enough doctors to treat those in need.

If I had no health care, I don't know if I would have gone in for a check-up. If some ailment was found, would that be considered a pre-existing condition and would it then preclude me from ever getting health insurance again? But then again, I am not now in such a desperate place to have to worry about that.

I just can't fathom the ignoring skills of those in power. How can they be so cavalier with their constituents’ health and welfare?

Why did they run for office in the first place?

If it was for self-aggrandizement then they will surely end in that ring of hell devoted to unfettered pride.

But too many of those poor souls forced to stand in line are left to depend on the sunny hear after promised by Christians across this land. Suffering on this mortal plane will almost surely guarantee a punched ticket at St. Peter's gate. Or so the story goes. But what does that say about the so-called Christian politicians who would continue that suffering by turning a very well paid blind eye to all that sorrow and pain.

I don't know. I am just getting over a very expensive illness that would break all but the richest family if they had no insurance.





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[Think-Its-Patriotic]

1. Best Health Care in the World? Confusing health care with the death penalty.

The only reason I have any semblance of health care (being mostly unemployed and all) are the low cost sliding scale clinics here in NC. And the only reason I have medication for my asthma. Bless you, Piedmont Health!

I had Blue Cross until I couldn't afford to pay anymore.

Who says we have the best health care in the world? Only people with a lot of money.

Here, we have the most expensive, least accessible, and a ridiculously high infant and maternal mortality rate for a supposed first world country. I think these people are confusing health care with the death penalty.

[Ozymanithrax]

2. Those opposed to Health Care reform will remain with eyes tight closed...

They will attack the messanger...
You know that Olberman is a Socialist/Communist/Nazi/pinko-fag and if he says it then it is not true.
They will ignore it and blame the patients.
You know those people don't have health care because the choose not to have health care.
This will change no minds.

We have to do this because it is the right thing to do.

[depakid]

3. How many? -an infinite number

So long as America refuses to deal with media (and financial) re-regulation.

[polichick]

4. Those who refuse to see will always refuse - one group has dollar signs in their eyes...

Both Dems and Repukes, they are the whores of the industry.

Another group is blinded by their own sense of entitlement and the sick belief that people who don't have what they need haven't worked hard enough. This group is without empathy.

Throw the bums out is the answer, but it'll take time.

[raccoon]

5. It isn't just the powerful who ignore this. Many Americans who have good health care--so far--are

OK with millions of others having no health care. They've got theirs, to hell with those "undeserving" uninsured people. :puke:

[juno jones]

6. Well said.

But too many of those poor souls forced to stand in line are left to depend on the sunny hear after promised by Christians across this land. Suffering on this mortal plane will almost surely guarantee a punched ticket at St. Peter's gate. Or so the story goes.

Although Jesus DID heal lepers, people who were considered unclean and phycically manifesting God's judgement upon their very bodies.

WWJD? :sarcasm:

[ej510]

7. They run for themselves.

WCGreen wrote:

Why did they run for office in the first place?

They run to gain wealth.

[jtrockville]

8. We don't have a health care system. We have a MARKET.

Or, maybe it should be called a RACKET.