Keep the Government Out of Medicare
source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMeF43Og828&feature=player_embedded#at=28
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Sounds like a pretty tall order.
A lot of people don't know that Medicare IS run by the government. It is a government program. It is also socialized medicine. If we take the government out of Medicare there is no Medicare. The guy in this video is a prankster making fun of people who are ignorant to these facts.
Don't feel insulted or stupid if you are one of those who didn't know this. The media and especially Fox News propagandizes misinformation to make it appear that the current health care plans will take away Medicare. This is exactly the opposite of what these plans do.
It is interesting that the U.S. is one of the few countries that has a socialized health care plan like Medicare. Most countries like France, Germany, and Japan, have private insurers that are non-profit or are effectively profit limited. Those governments cover every citizen from birth to death and they do it for free or for very affordable rates.
Canada is a country that has a health care system exactly like Medicare, though I think the insurer is private and not the government. But it is one insurer, which is called a single payer. So the U.S. could very easily cover every citizen, remove the for-profit criminal sadistic insurance industry, and fix everything by giving medicare to all citizens.
Read more in T. R. Reid's new book, The healing of America: http://current.com/items/91272386_health-care-a-measure-of-morality.htm
A lot of people don't know that Medicare IS run by the government. It is a government program. It is also socialized medicine. If we take the government out of Medicare there is no Medicare. The guy in this video is a prankster making fun of people who are ignorant to these facts.
Don't feel insulted or stupid if you are one of those who didn't know this. The media and especially Fox News propagandizes misinformation to make it appear that the current health care plans will take away Medicare. This is exactly the opposite of what these plans do.
It is interesting that the U.S. is one of the few countries that has a socialized health care plan like Medicare. Most countries like France, Germany, and Japan, have private insurers that are non-profit or are effectively profit limited. Those governments cover every citizen from birth to death and they do it for free or for very affordable rates.
Canada is a country that has a health care system exactly like Medicare, though I think the insurer is private and not the government. But it is one insurer, which is called a single payer. So the U.S. could very easily cover every citizen, remove the for-profit criminal sadistic insurance industry, and fix everything by giving medicare to all citizens.
Read more in T. R. Reid's new book, The healing of America: http://current.com/items/91272386_health-care-a-measure-of-morality.htm
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Wessagusset_Oracle
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Keep MEDICINE out of Gov't...oh yeah, they already have hundreds of lobyists, too late for that. FA Q big medicine/pharma
- 3 years ago
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Wessagusset_Oracle
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JeremyTG77
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The green shirt guy's obviously not serious, but elderly protesters have actually carried signs saying that before.
- 3 years ago
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JeremyTG77
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hunzedog
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talk about a dead horse.....
- 3 years ago
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hunzedog
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JonRaymond
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hunzedog:
More like 122 dead people per day for lack of health care and more for denial of insurance they pay for. The ignorance of people who believe the Fox propaganda persists. Expect to keep hearing this over and over. There are a growing number of people, many of them doctors, that will not rest until they see universal health care in this country.
- 3 years ago
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JonRaymond
