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Facebook Politics

Hi all,

It's time once again to sound off. A friend of mine has been using his Facebook status reports to spread his political views, which sometimes border on the insane. He's a republican, obviously, and he has really been going off about Obama's attempt to create a health care system in which everyone is covered. My friend obviously has insurance (otherwise he'd be singing a different tune), and people who are adequately insured don't want to make coverage available to everyone. They prefer the status quo, in which insurance companies decide types of medication and length of hospital stays. He's against "universal health care" or "socialized medicine" or whatever you want to call it, citing incorrect portrayals of other countries' health care follies. This is all nonsense, of course. People (including me) who live in these countries know that the health care is fine, financially manageable, and truly universal. I've lived which such coverage for more than twenty years, and I am more than satisfied. Doctors decide how long a patient stays in a hospital. The result: fewer deaths and complications. Infants are covered automatically after birth, not after a a couple of days as in most cases in the U.S. Why a couple of days you ask? So that any defects may be discovered and coverage denied. (This happened to a friend of mine.) There are no health care related bankruptcies in Europe; no people's financial well-being destroyed by an illness or accident.

Chew on that, my friend.

Cheers!

--James

Posted at 06:04PM Jul 29, 2009 by branajam in Personal  |