EmilyStrode wrote:
It is, as I have read, a very complicated issue for government subsidized health care. It appears many say no just based on an objection about socialism taking a place in America. Almost all modern governments have realized it is a mix of capitalism and socialism that is most successful. And it is proven. Not the strict definition of "socialism" but of incorporating certain welfare programs.
Almost all that usually object can afford private insurance. The ignorant "Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" Social Darwinism is fundamental to this view, as if the Rustbelt employees were somehow responsible for their fate in the 70s. Or those in the dust storms of the 30s. Or the million Americans hoodwinked and ruined by the feeding frenzy of Banks and Wall Street in the 2008 Financial Crisis, that almost destroyed America, were somehow culpable in their Fate and did not deserve welfare, food stamps, or any help from the government that helped in creating their Fate.
The general GOP look at this situation appears to be that most are bottom-feeders looking to live off the teat and for Democrats a vote-base. That most are children and the elderly on fixed incomes or disabled is never mentioned. Just yesterday a Republican said most on SSI were cheats, and most of those live in heavy Trump support states. Reagan started this warped view with his scurrilous remarks about "Welfare queens" and "young bucks." And the Democrats fueled their support, their base, with extensive largesse without guidance. All the needy, most made so by government policy, were then cast as scum or special, overlooking the reality. Letting them starve or suffer might get them off their ass, was the GOP thought. Freely giving them stuff was a vote, the Democrats thought. Neither saw people or the real problem. Both took advantage of this nation's disadvantaged.
You may like being lied to and find excuses for it, I do not. Trump promised no cuts to Medicaid or Social Security: his proposed budget guts Medicaid and severely damages SSI. He said unequivocally that "everybody would be covered": under his health care plan an estimated 23 million will lose coverage. This goes way beyond partisanship to basic decency and honor.
For me, health care is a right. Any decent and just government should provide such care. No excuse or higher priorities. Not to is a disgrace and a crime. We are not subjects, as previous regimes in history believed, but citizens. We are not cogs to maintain, strengthen, and enhance our governing bodies but the government as we the people. The thought "entitlement" will, I feel, become a vile term in a few decades. With a proper evolution in thinking, the word "obligation" will replace it. The odds are shrinking, though, for this awareness. If we continue on this blind destructive path of nationalism and populism that is sweeping the globe, governments of hate and fear, reactionary and not responsive, worldwide conflict and a return to feudalism seems inescapable.
To consider Health Care a right is one of those electrifying concepts that, once accepted and acted upon, would exponentially improve the state of the world. It is what Jesus and Buddha taught. The transformation in consciousness would be tremendous and irrevocable. That any government is not there to rule people but care for people as their proper function and duty, will light every heart on fire for a government for a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
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Emily...the cultural Communist have pumped you full of sand! In a great Country like this healthcare should be affordable!...It is not; we must correct that issue. If we are to survive and maintain our free-will and agency...We had better get back to our morals and fiscal responsibility in this Republic!
This approach of ( My problems are now your problems,) coupled with political correctness, and pop culture gone wild will destroy us from within!