The proposed health care bill thread (merged)

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Neither should people having to die because a Wall Street investor demands year over year EPS growth.

They'll certainly start dying once health care rationing is imposed by the Government. And a rationing of healthcare is a certainty if the Obama plan reaches fruition.

Once you eliminate private health insurance, which is Obama's ultimate goal, then you can't possibly service the needs of all the sick people all of the time, and so you start to set criteria boundries. They would start to deny certain procedures and treatments based on age or pre existing conditions.

When my father needed heart bypass surgery in the UK about 15 years ago, the wait time for his surgery using the British National Health Service was 1 year. He'd have been dead in 3 months had my sister and I not paid for the surgery ourselves and got him the operation he needed in under two weeks.

Under the Obama plan, my sister and I would not have been allowed to use our own money to save our father's life. After all, that's cheating right? Why should we be allowed to spend thousands of Dollars we worked very hard to save so that we could choose to save the life of our father?

Obama is an honorable man and he means well, but if he can't run 'cash for clunkers' without turning it into a cluster f**k, then his naive healthcare plan will be literally breath taking!