If I were to make the case against universal health care I suppose I could take a page from some of the Tea Party attendees and channel Ayn Rand for a few minutes, lol. The hard core argument against could be this:

Those people with health care in the USA haven't somehow, lifted themselves up via education, industriousness or perhaps good fortune. They have earned the quality health care. Those people who have not improved themselves are unable to afford coverage. In short, improve yourself, earn a handsome living and you too can have health care...Fail to educate yourself, toil as a common laborer, you'll get what you get...

Mind you, I utterly disagree with the above. I heard a protester at the DC Tea party saying the above. He literally had a US flag in one hand and a Bible in the other. I can buy that thinking for large screen TVs, fancy cars, nice clothes and big houses. I believe Health Care is a right, not a privilege. Everyone should have it...

Many in the US have wrapped themselves in both the Flag and the Bible but in my eyes behave in such an Un-American and Non Christian way its amazing.

Its not my place to judge anyone but there is some hypocrisy. The conservatives cozied up to the religious right sometime ago yet both camps are curiously quiet when it comes to letting their fellow brothers & sisters in Christ receive health care similar to what they often have. Medicare is great for seniors 65 and older, but if you propose it for someone 64, well now you're trampling on the Constitution. HOW DARE YOU??? They call that Socialism, Communism and a few other "ism's" I can't remember.

We have goofballs taking guns to our town hall meetings on health care and even to appearances that President Obama makes. They do so claiming its their constitutional right to do so and if anyone disagrees with them they'll have to pry it from their cold, dead fingers.

I am perfectly fine with someone rejected HR 3200 because of actual content of the Bill. Same for the new Baucus Bill. But there's too much ideology firing up the far right and I personally fear that someone will make a serious attempt on Obama's life.

We're pretty screwed up over here in a great many ways, lol...I wouldn't want to live anywhere else, but we've really gummed some things up badly, guys...

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Bill in Dayton

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