Saturday, May 02, 2009
Illinois Congresswoman doesn't like private health insurance
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) spoke on April 18 concerning her preferences for a public health insurance program over private health insurance. Well, maybe preference is not a strong enough word. Judge for yourselves:
I kind of like my private health insurance, and would like the option to keep it. Is that a frivolous use of my liberty?
I have a little tune I want to play for Congresswoman Schakowsky:
Really nice acoustic guitar, don't you think?
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5 Comments:
By 
Purple Avenger, at
Sat May 02, 09:31:00 PM:
When she has to wait 3 years for a brain operation to remove a tumor that will kill her within a year, she'll be changing her tune.
By SR, at
Sat May 02, 11:05:00 PM:
The only way private health insurance can't compete will be when the government makes it illegal. After all, the Post Office has been reduced to the delivery service for third class mail.
By Miss Ladybug, at
Sun May 03, 12:21:00 AM:
SR~
It's that what "single payer" means? And isn't that what Canada has? All health care providers work for the government. If the government bureaucracy says you don't get the care you need, or when you really need it, you are SOL, unless you are wealthy enough to be able to travel to the United States to get on-demand health care.
Great Britain has public health care, but there, at least, if you can afford it, you can go to a private doctor and receive much better care, because that private care is not rationed like it is in the public health system...
By Georg Felis, at
Sun May 03, 02:55:00 PM:
What could possibly go wrong with 50% of the population paying for the medical care of everybody? Other than, you know, the waiting lines, the sudden interest in just letting old people die before they cost too much, the inability to get newly developed effective medications, having a bureaucrat determine that you don't really "need" that replacement knee/heart/liver/kidney....
By kreiz1, at
Sun May 03, 07:36:00 PM:
Alistair's "Internationale" is 100 times better than the pompous version employed in Warren Beatty's "Reds".
