http://www.nber.org/reporter/summer04/blanchard.html

You just pulled that last post out of your ass.

The unemployment rate, in every country is Europe is much higher than in the United States and has been for a very long time.

This thread began with a PROBLEM in a government program!

Only a die-hard liberal could say that MORE government programs are the solution to this problem.

Even if the government took over every aspect of health care:

YOU would still have bills to pay.

YOU will still die.

YOU will still have family members die.

YOU will still have some of your claims denied!

Posted by: Econ101 | October 30, 2007 at 06:13 PM

INCORRECT!

The US economy looks good because of the vast riches of the top .01 percent.

The bottom 99.9 percent–the vast majority–are worse off than in Europe.

YOU HAVE HEALTH CARE

Health care and health insurance are NOT the same thing.

The purpose of ALL insurance is to prevent bankruptcy or poverty of the loss of wealth.

It is not the purpose of health insurance to “provide” health care, it is only there to help with the bills.

The US economy is AHEAD of every country that has socialized medicine.

So can anyone explain why we are “RATED” the lowest to all the other states?Why is it that they are doing better then we are?Is it really the number of claimants or is it the way it is being manage?

Mine won’t change like yours does.

And spare me your sympathy. You care nothing about anyone but yourself.

My health destroyed,no employer with health care would touch me. That’s cool, I don’t need them either. I work for me.

But there’s the rub aint it? Individual health insurance is sky high precisely because of HMOs and thier corporate clients.

The only limiting factor is me?

I’ve no problem with that. Get the corps and the franchises and the whole F’d up system outta my way. I still won’t forget about my fellow American.

That’s the difference between a former conservative turned lib like me and a drooling Rushbot like you Pat. You care only about yourself.

That and following me around.

Posted by: J R | October 29, 2007 at 10:26 PM

Poor health and you do landscaping and lawn care? One has to be in very good health to do that?

What happen J R? Did you try to defraud the company by making a false claim, then got fired?

Sorry to hear about your family friend.

A good friend of my family died just a few hours ago. Real sweet lady. Good union member and a devout Christian.

I visited her in hospital just last Tuesday.

Well with the insurance controlled medicine we have, they sent her home Friday.

Saturday night, she collapsed. Family tried to administer CPR.

A few hours ago, they removed this good lady from life support. A friend to my father and my family is dead.

And THIS for a woman who DID have insurance.

If they had kept her til they found what was wrong, she might be alive tonight.

We have to fix health care in this country.

14 years serviceI at a company that destroyed my family and my health and then cut me loose when I wasn’t convenient anymore.

My health destroyed,no employer with health care would touch me. That’s cool, I don’t need them either. I work for me.

But there’s the rub aint it? Individual health insurance is sky high precisely because of HMOs and thier corporate clients.

The only limiting factor is me?

I’ve no problem with that. Get the corps and the franchises and the whole F’d up system outta my way. I still won’t forget about my fellow American.

That’s the difference between a former conservative turned lib like me and a drooling Rushbot like you Pat. You care only about yourself.

That and following me around.

Posted by: J R |

You reap what you sew JR. And if you don’t have a job, or don’t get a job with healthcare YOU will be without.

The only limiting factor here is you.

Join 253 million of us. We have healthcare.

Why would you deny myself and my son basic health care?

So Mary, are you sure you want the same folks in charge of the Social security disability fiasco (see thread) in charge of health care? Dictating what care you can and can’t have and who you have to go to? Not me.

We need reform but it is best accomplished through the private sector with government incentives.

Approximately 20 million of them are illegal aliens.

Several million of them are “yuppie” types who make adequate income to afford insurance but choose to buy “toys” instead.

Look at the census records, do your homework before you make false statements Pedant.

Unless you want to be another Michael Moore apostle, then by all means let him control your leash.

And of that 47 million, how many have actually used it?

Like Mary points out, just about every American I know with “great healthcare!” can afford that opinion because they don’t use the damn thing. Anybody who’s been unlucky enough to have used healthcare recently knows it’s sick, bad sick.

The vast majority of Americans knows that US healthcare needs reform. The political party that manages to drive laws covering everybody with insurance against personal bankruptcy (due to healthcare spending) that’s portable and affordable will be the political party that becomes known for kicking the US economy in the *ss so hard the homeless are eatin’ off china.

When enacted, those 2 changes in American healthcare — universal coverage that doesn’t depend on whether or not you’re employed — will cause the US economy to rocket upward, and rocket upward for more Americans.

Talking point. Baseless, tired cliche.

That is unless you have a link?

What is the population of the USA JR? Now subtract the democrats pride and joy 47 million from that.

Link please?

Gotta source for the above, or are you just guessing.

“Employers more and more are not covering employees or families and the cost of private insurance is way beyond most peoples ability to pay for it.”

Where does this one come from? There are 253,000,000 Americans do have healthcare. Maybe, maybe 47 million (including illegals and those who decline it) do not.

Many of us have great healthcare!

You do not throw out an entire system, because less than 15 percent to DO have coverage.

Instead, you examine WHY those few do not, and work to resolve that issue.

You don’t make all 300 million Americans change to a social system of providing care.

That would only make sense in a fantasy world. Like the Fairness Doctrine.

Do you not imagine that EVERYONE will try to do the same thing?

I would guess that the lines from 5 to 7 would be pretty long.

Try going online for your tags, it works great.