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BrassOrchid
said, 4 months ago
Nailed himself right in the nose! At least he hit something! Not what he was aiming for, maybe, but pretty good for a beginner.
meetinthemiddle said, 4 months ago
Actually, it was the CEOs in the picture who “missed the target” as it were
Chillbilly
said, 4 months ago
I still don’t understand why CEOs are so united against a single-payer system. It would take one of their most cumbersome expenses and something that is quite frankly none of their business off their books.
onguard said, 4 months ago
@Chillbilly
More Government control……means more Government Control on everything.
coraryan
said, 4 months ago
@Chillbilly
If you think the “single-payer” system is so great, you need to talk to some people from Canada & England. They don’t think it’s so hot! I know a man who lives in Canada who had to wait a year & a half for open heart surgery. In the meantime he could do nothing but sit in his recliner if he wanted to keep living. Another friend from England is dead now because they deemed him “too old” for heart surgery. This kind of thing is coming to this country if Obama has his way. My brother-in-law has already been told by his Dr. that if he wants his bad knee replaced he has to have it done before he turns 70, as Medicare will not pay for joint replacements after that. So when you hit 70 you are expendable!
MortyForTyrant said, 4 months ago
I contemplated the U.S. problems recently and found that you are simply too late to the game…
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In the 1870’s or so Germany had it’s industrial revolution and unification. Back then there was no health care. You got sick – you died, unless you had the money. A lot of good people died, people that were valuable to the companies they worked for and the nation. So laws were enacted to keep valuable people alive. And since you never know who will turn out to be valuable – voila! – universal health care was born (okay, that was the simplified version…).
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The problem with the U.S. system is that it – somehow – works. In order to get a mayor change towards “better” you would have to defund and close all Emergency Rooms for a month. THEN people would understand, I guess. Or better: I hope…
DrCanuck said, 4 months ago
@coraryan
coraryan said, “I know a man who lives in Canada who had to wait a year & a half for open heart surgery….”
You lie. Serious surgeries are performed very quickly. And others, not much later. A colleague of mine was diagnosed as needing an artificial hip and three weeks later was on the operating table.
BrassOrchid
said, 4 months ago
@meetinthemiddle
Impossible. He would have had to give them the bow instead of exercising the responsibility for which he campaigned. I just can’t see that happening.
ninety_nine_percent said, 4 months ago
How do the Republicans convince the middle class that they don’t want health care? You can get some people to believe anything, I guess. “No, no, you don’t want us to save your life!”
dannysixpack said, 4 months ago
^^As opposed to this country where if he were one of the 30 percent without health insurance, he couldn’t get it at all.
but at least he wouldn’t have to face a ‘death panel’.
meetinthemiddle said, 4 months ago
@BrassOrchid
Wasn’t commenting pro or con on the toon’s message – just pointing out what the toon was actually saying.
lonecat said, 4 months ago
@coraryan
Okay, ask someone from Canada. I guess that’s me. I went to my family doctor a week and a half ago (I call in the morning, I see her in the afternoon) because I was maybe feeling a little chest pain, but I wasn’t really sure it was anything, but hey, it’s better to know than not know. And because I’m covered (like everyone else) by the provincial health insurance system, I never have to say “Can I afford this visit to the doctor?” So she gave me a pretty thorough exam, and she said “Well, so far as I can tell, there’s nothing wrong. But you know you’re getting a little older, and it makes sense to check this out.” So she sent me for an echo-cardiogram. The appointment was five days later. (In an emergency, of course, it would have been right away.) So I had the test, and I’m happy to say that everything is just fine. No system is perfect, but I’m happy with the Canadian system. I lived many years in the US, and all my family has lived and died there, and I have a lot of experience with the US system. At its best, the US system is great. At its worst it lets people get sick and die.
BrassOrchid
said, 4 months ago
@meetinthemiddle
One can never know what any work of art says. Even the artist is often surprised at the meanings found in their work. Especially the artist.
BrassOrchid
said, 4 months ago
@ninety_nine_percent
That’s not difficult. The difficulty is in convincing them that they will get something for nothing and it will be better than that for which they pay. Selling that argument requires real talent.
echoraven said, 4 months ago
@Chillbilly
because of the taxes that will result. Take a look at the tax rates of other countries with a single payer system and look at ours. We pay FAR less; but not for long…