castleclear ([info]castleclear) wrote in [info]unitarian_jihad,
@ 2008-09-30 15:45:00
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For those interested in electronic activism:  http://healthcareforamericanow.org/page/speakout/debate

Here's what I wrote:
Dear Steve Chaggaris:
Please ask the candidates about their respective healthcare plans. Public access to affordable, quality health care is diminishing. Is health care a fundamental right of all Americans? Are all sectors of society stengthened when eveyone has health care? Is it more in-line with our values as a society to provide health care to all children, elderly, disabled, or any citizen rather than providing profits for 5%-0.5% of our population? Even as education is vital to our nation's future, isn't health care equally fundamental?

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[info]thndrchld
2008-10-01 06:17 am UTC (link)
I should like to point out to you that the elderly, the disabled and children from low income families DO have health care now, Medicaid and Medicare - such as it is. The vast majority of people without health care are workers who make too much to qualify as low income, but work for companies that do not provide health care or are self employed and don't afford to insure themselves. And before you jump. Please know that I work for Social Security, and sign people up for these benefits all day long.

Yes, I know these are barely adequate. With the prices for basic supplies and procedures soaring out of control, it is impossible to have government provided health care that will cover anything beyond the very basic.

Which is why I really wish there was a way to walk away from looking to the government to provide anything. It has never done it well, it has always cost too much and it will always drive up the price in the public sector. Always. So I would much much prefer to have some way to deal with the costs without involving them. Like finding a dentist that will reduce the price 65% if I don't use my insurance and just pay cash, or set up regular payments, which I have. Please, think about this very hard, and talk to people who already live with government health care, like England, Canada, our VA, Medicare etc.

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