Remember the weapons of mass destruction that never appeared in Iraq? The only way to get the American people to go to war in Iraq was to scare them with weapons of mass destruction. As we all now know, there were no weapons of mass destruction.
Now, they are scaring you about government health care.
I will expose the lies as I come across them.
1. They say, "Everything the government does turns out wrong." Without the government, we would not have a Golden Gate Bridge, or an interstate highway system, or medicare, or electricity on our farms, or a military force.
2. They say, "The health care proposal calls for euthanasia." Actually, it calls for each person to make the decision about what kind of end of life health care that each person wants to have. For an example, go to www.LawandLaws.com, click on forms, then click on the Health Care form. This is an example of the kind of form required in the proposed law.
3. They say, "Government health care funds get spent on administration, not health care." Medicare spends about 2% on administration, private insurance spends about 20% on administration (counting advertising dollars as administration).
4. They say, "Government health insurance does not work in other countries." Of course, they only quote the complaints as the system gets started. They never count the kudos after the system is up and running.
My concern is that the private insurance companies get to set the RATES THEY CHARGE and CHOOSE THE PEOPLE that they insure. If you do not currently have a good job, it is unlikely that you have affordable health insurance. The cost of private health insurance is so high that it brought down the auto companies. If you are older, you cannot get a job because health insurance costs go up sharply as you get older.
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