in addition to this, the teacher's unions and democrats in california have made home schooling of children increasingly burdensome over the years, and the reasons are twofold: attendance revenue and indoctrination.
Indoctrination is why there shouldn't be home schooling. People in America home school their children primarily for religious or moral reasons, and are almost twice as likely to be Evangelical than the national average. Indoctrination is right.
as for socialized medicine, it is a horrible idea. currently, the US has more MRI machines than the rest of the world COMBINED! this is because our system is still a for profit system.
What's the use of having all those MRI machines if only the chosen few have access to it? Only so that insurance middle men, leaches and parasites can make profit from the system. They don't contribute to the system itself, only themselves.
do you want to wait 6 months for an MRI after you tear your MCL surfing, and then wait another year for the surgery?
You base this "fact" on what? If your surgery is urgent you will not wait for 6 months. It's a fat lie, lifted from a Rush Limbaugh's script. System like that does not exist.
If you haven't been anywhere or experienced health care in other western countries with established Universal Health system and still refuse to do your own research, you should really shut the f*uck about something you have no clue about.
Opinion is one thing, everybody is entitled to it, but basing it on ignorance and non-facts is idiotic.
the larger question is: why in the world would you want to turn healthcare management over to government!?!?
Why would we want police, fire or judicial system run by the government?
Because when profit and greed mixes with public service that our lives depend on, there's a conflict of interest.
people, its your life, and your health is YOUR responsibility. if you turn it over to the government, you are effectively handing over your autonomy, your body, your decisions, to the state....the state will OWN you.
How will state "own you"? Because it will make health care accessible to you instead of burning the money that could be spent on health, on lining up the pockets of people who profit from human misery and contribute a FAT ZERO back to the system?
don't for one second that the spiraling costs of universal health care won't cause the state to start deciding who gets to live, and who gets to die.
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national socialism (nazism) comes to america.
are you really that dumb?
You are flat out one of the dumbest people who ever posted here.
Not because of your inept thinking, but because you run away from threads like this like a little girl because other than slapping labels like "Bolshevik" and "national socialism" on people, you don't know how to debate issues because you are incapable of reason, like most of your ilk.
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well, dude, you've proven that:
1. you hate free markets,
2. you don't understand how powerful the profit incentive is and has been in the advancement of society, liberty, and technology (including medical),
3. you think the federal government can efficiently and cost effectively administer a national socialist health insurance program,
4. that you don't understand that health insurance coverage is NOT the same thing as affordable health care availability,
5. that abdicating your responsibility to provide for your own health care services to the state (especially in a plan like hillary's) is effectively turning ownership of your body over to the state,
6. you believe that the state should have ownership over children, instead of parents.
sounds like a national socialist to me...opposition to the free market system, and state control over individuals, their health, and their children.
i actually think you are probably more of stalinist, too far left for even nazis to stomach.
you've also shown that you will not deal with some of my other salient points, like why is the founder of quebec's socialized healthcare system, the one on which the national program was modeled, admitting it is a failure, and is working hard to bring privatization and profit incentive back?
dude, the USSR failed for a reason, but apparently, the lesson is lost on you.
seriously, a national socialized health care system would eat up a huge percentage of our GDP and reduce everyone's standard of living, cause a shortage of actual health care services (health insurance is NOT the same as health care), and limit the choices and freedom of individuals to choose the level of coverage or care they want.
anyway, all of this is off-topic: wow, are the hillary democrats and obama democrats going to rip the party apart at the seams?
interesting that bill 'disbarred' clinton is floating the joint ticket balloon, and obama is just shooting it down. of course, he's winning the pledged delegate and popular vote count, so he's in the cat-bird seat. hillary is sweating, but will work the party machine for the super delegates.
stupid democrats and their lame-brained proportional primary system and obviously rigged rules. unfortunately, hillary is looking at the one opponent she can't use the rules to beat, because he's black, er, half-black, er african-american (but not like most 'african americans', he's more like a half kenyan-american, or an american half-kenyan, in that he's not really from the same cultural extraction we usually think of when we say 'black' er, 'african-american').
the rules are the rules, and neither one is going to have enough delegates going into the convention, but can democrats afford to lose the 10% vote of blacks in the general? can the democrats afford to alienate all the single women that would follow hillary into hell (you know, the ones who want to marry the government, and want all those entitlement programs hillary admits we cannot afford)?
crazy. they are heading for the cliff, and they know it, but there's nothing anyone can do about it.
well, hillary could do something about it...
the dems are doomed. obama is fatally flawed, and so is hillary.
mccain has potential health issues, but he's head and shoulders above the competition.
