Yesterday, Rudy Giuliani accused Democrats of being commies for advocating universal health care:
“We’ve got to do it the American way,” Giuliani said during a town hall forum in Rochester, New Hampshire. “The American way is not single-payer, government-controlled anything. That’s a European way of doing something; that’s frankly a socialist way of doing something.”
Rudy apparently lives in an alternate America where Medicare (and, for that matter, Social Security) never existed. He certainly doesn’t live in the real America, whose citizens strongly favor government-sponsored social insurance and want Washington to make universal health care happen.
Giuliani’s comments came as he unveiled his health “plan,” which would involve breaking up the employer-based coverage system and implementing tax breaks for families to buy their own insurance. The plan would do nothing to help the 47 million Americans without health insurance, and as Craig Gordon notes, it amounts to little more than a rehash of the failed proposal George Bush made in the last State of the Union address. Giuliani, a former lobbyist for the pharmaceutical industry, seems content to wallow in the same “market-based” complacency that has for so long kept conservatives from doing anything to help Americans achieve health security.
3 Responses to “Rudy is Unserious on Health Care”
he very clearly points out that the tax credits will allow people to buy their own healthcare, and as the market grows, the costs will drop, making easier for the 47 million to buy their own cheaper helathcare, and on and on. the market will take care of itself. this in not a beehive or an anthill, i shouldnt have to pay for your healthcare or anyone elses but my own.
if liberals REALLY cared about health, they would realize its a health prolbem in america, not healthcare. we are the fattest country on earth, we eat shit, we drink and smoke, we dont take care of ourselves. wellness incentives would also drive down the cost of healthcare. but liberals hate incentives to provoke quality, just look at our schools and teachers for more proof of that.
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most americans are uninformed about ‘free’ healthcare, and that what it really includes is the largest tax increase in human history. why should i have to pay for someone else’s healthcare? why should the quality of my healthcare go down for you or anyone else? thats not freedom, thats not a free society. the left won’t even let privated heathcare compete with their proposed system. why not? because americans will rather pay more then wait on waiting lists a million people deep, only to receive lousey healthcare. because liberals believe wealth redistibution, government intervention, and socialism is the answer to all things.
social security is the cream of the socialism crop, but like all soliciast policies, it is flawed beyond belief when compared to the free market capitilism this country was founded on. i wonder, when social securtiy goes bankrupt, will liberals still carry it as a feather in their cap?
Left by matt
August 4, 2007 at 3:14pm