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Originally Posted by kramer
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And your point is? Canada may have waiting lists...but we have almost FIFTY MILLION American citizens who can wait until Hell freezes over and won't get any care whatsoever. That's thanks to the greedy Insurance companies, HMO's and Big Pharma who bleed us dry because THEY have control over healthcare costs in this country. And did I mention France? Germany? Denmark? Great Britain? Austrailia? (Best in the world, by the way.) Japan? Iceland? Norway? Spain? I could go on...
Don't give me that tired old "Socialized Medicine" hogwash, either. Single-payer healthcare run by the government would DECREASE labor costs; just look into what's breaking the back of General Motors, why don't you? It would improve the quality and, likely, the LENGTH of our lives. Like it does in Europe.
Oh, I forgot: According to you cheap-labor conservatives, there's no such thing as "The General Welfare," is there? I was just hallucinating whan I saw that phrase in the Constitution...right?