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1. Universal Healthcare

   passgasser replied to Chellyse's topic in Activism

   One other point supporters of universal healthcare have ignored: In all the swooning over how much better it will be, how we will cut the administrative costs so drastically, how everyone will be covered, all of you have ignored the most telling poi...

2. Universal Healthcare

   passgasser replied to Chellyse's topic in Activism

   Allow me to stipulate that any editorial article you all find at the New Democracy Project, The Nation, Columbia University, etc, are going to be supportive of your position. That said, perhaps we can take up a little less bandwidth with posts of thi...

3. Universal Healthcare

   passgasser replied to Chellyse's topic in Activism

   It is only inevitable if folks like you and I give up.

4. Universal coverage for pregnant women and children = 9 days of DOD spending

   passgasser replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism

   Uberman, just a thought. Quoting radio personalities, particularly when those personalities are as rabid as Savage, is not a particularly good way to get your point across.

5. Universal coverage for pregnant women and children = 9 days of DOD spending

   passgasser replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism

   I've been wanting to ask this, and this is a good post to lead in: Why this hatred for the wealthy? I'm not wealthy, though as a CRNA I make a pretty good living. Why the vitriol? In most cases, the wealthy became wealthy through their own hard wo...

6. Universal Healthcare

   passgasser replied to Chellyse's topic in Activism

   Been really busy lately, but have tried to keep up on this thread. As I see it, there have been a number of objections raised by those of us who don't really think that we need to scrap a system that serves 85% of our population. I would point out (a...

7. Universal Healthcare

   passgasser replied to Chellyse's topic in Activism

   There is a tendency for proponents of social programs to depersonalize how those programs are to be paid for. "There are people who cannot afford a service, therefore 'the government' must provide that service for these people." By using the term "th...

8. Universal Healthcare

   passgasser replied to Chellyse's topic in Activism

   Thank you for recognizing that there are valid objections out there. A large problem for me is that there are many like you who recognize these problems, yet are willing to rush headlong into change. And if the change creates a situation as bad or wo...

9. Low income women out of luck?

   passgasser replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism

   Sorry, but I think you missed my point. This isn't a liberal versus conservative issue. Neither is it an issue of who we will or won't protect. It is an issue that nurses need to be concerned with, but from more than one angle. From a public health v...

10. Universal Healthcare

    passgasser replied to Chellyse's topic in Activism

    I think it interesting that you call yourself a progressive, yet what you advocate is regressive. Creation of a national healthcare agency would equate to the creation of a monopoly the likes of which has not been seen since the breakup of the Bell C...

11. Universal Healthcare

    passgasser replied to Chellyse's topic in Activism

    This is the second time you have posted this thought, and both times, I have had the same thought in response. Since you find mistrust of our government deeply troubling, may I make the following inferences? -When news of the warrantless wiretappin...

12. Universal Healthcare

    passgasser replied to Chellyse's topic in Activism

    Like Timothy, I am against federal government subsidies paid to corporate America. That out of the way, let's look for a moment at the government you all want to run our health care program: Of course, we all know that the government has a long hist...

13. Universal Healthcare

    passgasser replied to Chellyse's topic in Activism

    Burn out: You are missing a fundamental difference or two between the Federal Government and private industry. First of all, where the right of self-determination is concerned, under the status quo, you are free to make choices. Let’s compare two peo...

14. Universal Healthcare

    passgasser replied to Chellyse's topic in Activism

    "Top 10 Reasons For Enacting a Single Payer Healthcare System 1. Everybody in, nobody out. Universal means access to healthcare for everyone, period." Granted. However, not paid for by everyone, just by those who are working. Again, a "right" granted...

15. Universal Healthcare

    passgasser replied to Chellyse's topic in Activism

    And, in case anyone was wondering, yes there is precedent for what I am saying (you have no rights that would necessarily place a burden on others). In the case of CBS versus the DNC, 1973, the court basically said that there was no requirement for b...