Yea to Socialized Medicine
Socialized medicine is the Hope Diamond of politics. Every-so-often, some politician will trot it out, dust it off and display it before the curtain gets brought down on another political career. Just look at Hillary Clinton. But now, it is being shopped around again.
In spite of what the naysayers say, I am in favor of socialized medicine. It won't bankrupt our country because the sub-prime mortgage industry has already done that, and patients won't be left to die in the streets so long as our program is funded by the government but run by the medical community. If the government got involved, then people would wind probably up dying in the streets for things no more complicated than a hangnail.
It's not like it hasn't been tried and tested. Our neighbors to the north, Canada, already have socialized medicine, and there hasn't been a surge in their mortality rate or any crazy epidemics up there. Probably because theirs is run by the medical community, patients don't have to wait long for care, and doctors, nurses and other medical personnel don't wind up living in cardboard shacks. For those who don't want to get involved, there can always be privatized care where they could pay out of their own pockets, if they so choose.
It's also more just. Not everyone has been fortunate enough to receive a good education or have a job that pays for health benefits, so it would be healthier for them and their children.
The one requirement I have is over who gets it and who doesn't. Anyone who is here illegally and has been filching off the government need not apply because they are the ones who helped lead us into this mess to begin with.
It won't bankrupt our country because we're already bankrupt? What kind of logic is that? We have no money, so let's spend more? I'd hate to see how the budget is balanced at YOUR house, Ms. Saunders.
Canada hasn't had a surge in mortality rates or any crazy epidemics--and that is the primary standard of health care excellence, for you?
The second paragraph of this little piece doesn't even make any sense.
Diane, I don't want to look at the budget in my house, either, believe me, but I have to every month.
Yes Gail, and if you found that you were already "bankrupt," one would think you would refrain from going out and running up another credit card. That's a "duh."
Obama has made a new pick for Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin. Regina Benjamin, MD, graduated from Morehouse School of Medicine, and ran a practice dedicated to low income families around Bayou La Route since the early 90s, and moonlighted in clinics and ER's to fund her practice. Her practice in Louisiana was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and again by a fire almost a year to the day afterwards, and she used a cash loan or two to rebuild. Her position on socialized medicine is unknown. Regina Benjamin is a credit to the human race, a great pick for SG – and many would give a cash advance to see someone as qualified take the post.