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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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

This is a fallacious argument, based on the idea that we all have the right to healthcare, regardless of ability to pay. So far, no one has been able to successfully argue that this right even exists. In recognition of a woman's right to vote, the ...

But there is a significant difference. In a free market economy, if a company fails to be competitive, consumers may choose other companies to provide the same goods or services, and the one uncompetitive company goes out of business. The same free m...

Mandatory. In theory I think this is a good idea. We already mandate certain vaccines for children in order for them to register for school, why not include this vaccine? However, let me play the devil's advocate for a moment. (This is not my arg...

I have. Again, reductions in reimbursement will force lowering of pay across the board in the health care industry. Increased taxation will be necessary. So, in the health care industry at least, pay will go down while taxes will go up. Speaking ...

First, the Ninth Amendment: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. " A number of people, here and elsewhere, use this amendment to try to tell us that there ...

See post #279, from NRSKarenRN. She cited the facts that I used to write my post. The facts themselves come from the US Census bureau. As to what the intent of the constitution was or was not at the time it was written, one thing is abundantly clea...

In rereading my last post, there are a couple of things I want to add. It is not my intent to seem harsh or heartless. I am neither. At the same time, I am a realist. Social problems exist, ones for which we must search for solutions. I am not ...

Facts are indeed stubborn things: There is no statistical difference in the number of impoverished from 2004 to 2005. From that, we can infer that this is yet another indicator that our economy is not in as bad a shape as we have been told by some. T...

Mark Mostly, I agree with what you write, but would like you to be aware of a few things: 1. You are correct that the first full time anesthesia providers were nurses. But nothing there has been taken from us. A few statistics: In the US today, s...

Well, suspect whatever you want. But until you can provide proof to the contrary, I'll stand by the statistical numbers: http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/p60-220.pdf http://www.nchc.org/facts/coverage.shtml http://www.incontext.indiana.edu/2005/se...