I'm assuming that we now understand there is a difference between advocating socialism and opposing laissez faire capitalism from the conclusion of the conversation in my last blog. now that we know the difference i'd like take an honest look at John Edwards health care plan.
In short he wants to open up an optional single payer system, essentially opening Medicare to anyone who wants to pay in to it. keep in mind this is not mandatory, if you want in, you pay in, if you do not wish to buy in you do not have to. given that with the current numbers, Medicare being not for profit, operates at 5% of the overhead of private market insurance companies this health care option will likely be much less expensive in general and could cover the uninsured as well as those who are insured at a lesser cost than your current private market insurance.
i know what you're thinking "BUT THATS SOCIALISM!" but it isn't and here is why. if united health group wants to continue giving William McGuire $2.1 billion in stock options, they can. all this system will do is add more fierce competition to the market. and as we know a competitive market is paramount to good capitalism. it will help to drive health costs down while they compete to come up with a better insurance plan. the best part of his plan is is nobody is taking away options or telling you that you have to have this plan. just giving you more choices
that is why John Edwards scares people, the right couldn't run against him, they know it, why do you think they and the corporate media have anointed Hillery as our candidate when truth of the matter is most liberals can't stand her. yet conservatives can't get her name out of their mouth, why? because they have chosen who they want to run against. same thing happened to Howard Dean last cycle. the right didn't want to run against him, the right wing had a million dollar ad in Iowa slamming Dean a month before their caucus, simply put Kerry was a pushover, and thats who the bush crew wanted to run against.
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I'm a socialist, unborn baby killing, freedom & country hating, liberal! or am I? actually i am a mechanic, just a working class guy, looking out for my countries best interests. I see that laissez faire capitalism and democracy do not see eye to eye. I see that there has been an undeclared war waged on the American middle class. one where the super rich keep getting richer the poor get poorer, as the middle class disappears into a corporate feudalist system under the guise of freeing the market. i see that supply side economics is nothing more than grooming the American public to be consumers, not producers in the new world order. if you can't afford to be a consumer well sell yourself into slavery with your new Amero express card. does that make me a liberal? a socialist? fine so be it call it what you will. but do not tie me to the democratic leadership who has been all too willing to pander to the highest bidder while making it look like they are the opposition. at least the republicans will admit they are for hate, war and oppression. while the democrats only pretend to be against hate war and oppression.
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