tornandfrayed wrote:Why can't the abortion issue be contained? No one wants to use abortion as birth control. It does need to be available as an option when the mothers life is at risk or under circumstances of rape or incest as examples. I have to say that at this point in my life, if my wife became pregnant and it was threatening her life I would choose abortion. Not because I want to kill babies but because I love my wife. I could not stand the though of not having her with me. I could not stand the thought of my three children not having their Mom.
As far as "taking over" Health care, I assume that none of you are going to take advantage of Medicare, Right? I also assume that you are home schooling your children because the Public school system is very socialistic.
Of course you aren't. Most of you went to public school and all of you will take advantage of Medicare at one point or another.
Making Health care available for people and mandatory, like car insurance, would give people with no health care an option. All of you that have great health care can keep what you already have, why do you dislike that so much?
What is it that you love so much about your health care? Is it the cost? The level of care? What? I talk to a lot of people and most of the time they bitch and moan about Hospitals and Doctors.....
Also, any of you out there retired and keeping your health plan rather then supplementing it with medicare? How is that working? I always thought that retired people should get a break on the cost of health, hence Medicare.
Let's hear what you love about your plans!
Lets forget about the "plan" for a moment. Why is all this only about health care? Aren't there more important things than health care?
I will attempt to rank daily living needs:
1. Air, hard for government to regulate, so mostly free.
2. Water, much more important than health care, shouldn't the government pay for all our water. I have to pay for mine. Can't live more than a few days without water.
3. Food, can't live more than a week or so without food. The government should give us all free food.
4. Shelter, we all need a place to live, warm in the winter, cool in the summer. Free housing should be available to all.
5. A Job. Government should guarantee us all a job. A well paying, room to advance, job.
6. Transportation. Have to get to that job, so the government should provide us all a free car, van or truck.
7. Day care. If you have children, how are you going to do your guaranteed job if you don't have free government day care?
8. Education. A free education, up to the level you want. If you want a college degree, it should be free. Graduate level, for free. Why not?
9. Now is where Health Care should fit in, IMO.
After these basic needs are provided by the government, what is next could be up for discussion. Here are a few things I would like.
Steelers Tickets
Free Cable and internet access
Allman Brothers Band playing in Blair Co. ballpark
Gourmet beans on demand
Here is a link to read up on the hierarchy of needs, maybe we can think up a few more that the government can take care of for us:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s ... y_of_needs