[swanson719]

How can people say that free medical is so great? Congress doesn't have to pay a tab for medical, the same as the military, but they still have to have referralls, authorizations, etc. etc. They still wait to see the doctor. There is no calling a private doctor and getting squeezed in and having the taxpayers pay for it. It just doesn't work like that. They go through the same hoops as everyone else, just don't have to pay the bill with it. There are a few exceptions for cabinet members, the president, the party leaders, but by and large, it works the same as normal insurance.

Socialized medicine would put this system in place for everyone. And there is no benefit of it socially. From a debt load viewpoint, it would be the equivalent of having the entire nation on one provider in a group rate. Rather than having that rate judged as an actual, active bill, it will be judged passively as a federal tax. That line on your pay stub that says "Federal Taxes/Medicare/Social Security" - now just take out the medicare, make it higher by $100 a month, and add it to federal taxes. That's what socialized medicine does. It's not free. We just change the names to protect the innocent. Taxes go up. It's the Democratic way - Tax and Spend. Democrats think they can spend money better than the people they tax to get it from. You and I can spend our money better than government, so why pay government to tell you what health care you can use? It doesn't make sense. You lose your choice, and pay for it to be taken away, all in the name of helping the poor. Why are the majority of poor people poor? Because they make bad decisions with their money. So now we're going to make a bad decision not just with our money but our healthcare for ourselves and our family to help people who don't know or don't want to help themselves. Are we stupid people?

The only way to do this without raising taxes is to go further in national debt. To who? At what cost? The interest on the national debt is over a billion dollars a day. A Billion. A thousand million. Can you comprehend how much money that is? That's just interest. We all are smart enough here to understand you don't get out of debt by going further in the red. So why are we advocating this? It makes no sense financially to reduce the care of the many to help the few, and either finance the cost at huge interest rates or tax those who we are reducing their care. Wake up people. How do you think that socialized medicine benefits anyone but those who don't have care and don't pay taxes because they are so poor? The only ones that benefit from this are people who make less than $18,500 a year and don't have insurance. If you want to help those people make a donation to charity. Don't hurt everyone elses health care so you can feel good about yourself.