Comments on: Obama Says We've Been Waiting Since Teddy Roosevelt http://capitolcommentary.com/2009/09/30/obama-says-weve-been-waiting-since-teddy-roosevelt/ A smaller government is a better government. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:08:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Harrison http://capitolcommentary.com/2009/09/30/obama-says-weve-been-waiting-since-teddy-roosevelt/#comment-2047 Harrison Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:23:37 +0000 http://harrisonprice.com/?p=2470#comment-2047 Covering illegal aliens... no. If you have a job you can usually get healthcare. I have had a job for many years and have always had healthcare. And if my neighbor's house catches fire that could result in my house catching on fire and then the entire neighborhood then the entire city. That is different than healthcare. Healthcare "reform" is fine, forced single payer healthcare is not okay... that is what Obama has been pushing. That is why he failed. Upwards of 80% of Americans like their healthcare. Even under Obamakare you would not have 100% coverage. And the people who do have healthcare, which are the vast majority of Americans, would see their care degrade. No thanks. And if you are shot you may go to the emergency room and get treated... whether you have healthcare or not. Covering illegal aliens… no. If you have a job you can usually get healthcare. I have had a job for many years and have always had healthcare. And if my neighbor’s house catches fire that could result in my house catching on fire and then the entire neighborhood then the entire city. That is different than healthcare. Healthcare “reform” is fine, forced single payer healthcare is not okay… that is what Obama has been pushing. That is why he failed.

Upwards of 80% of Americans like their healthcare. Even under Obamakare you would not have 100% coverage. And the people who do have healthcare, which are the vast majority of Americans, would see their care degrade. No thanks.

And if you are shot you may go to the emergency room and get treated… whether you have healthcare or not.

]]> By: Harrison http://capitolcommentary.com/2009/09/30/obama-says-weve-been-waiting-since-teddy-roosevelt/#comment-2046 Harrison Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:20:15 +0000 http://harrisonprice.com/?p=2470#comment-2046 The WSJ had a good article saying Obama failed because he was only seeking a way to make single payer the law of the land and Americans saw through it. The WSJ had a good article saying Obama failed because he was only seeking a way to make single payer the law of the land and Americans saw through it.

]]> By: jd http://capitolcommentary.com/2009/09/30/obama-says-weve-been-waiting-since-teddy-roosevelt/#comment-2045 jd Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:48:20 +0000 http://harrisonprice.com/?p=2470#comment-2045 bear with me: obama is right to a point: we do need healthcare reform. we have for some time now. but the proposal that is being kicked around is not health care reform. it is government sponsored health care control. reform is supposed to be improvement. i'm not sure the english language has an uncensored adjective to properly describe it. bear with me: obama is right to a point: we do need healthcare reform. we have for some time now.

but the proposal that is being kicked around is not health care reform. it is government sponsored health care control. reform is supposed to be improvement. i’m not sure the english language has an uncensored adjective to properly describe it.

]]> By: Joe Markowitz http://capitolcommentary.com/2009/09/30/obama-says-weve-been-waiting-since-teddy-roosevelt/#comment-2044 Joe Markowitz Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:08:14 +0000 http://harrisonprice.com/?p=2470#comment-2044 If our civilization were to evolve to the point where we recognized a right to medical care, which is the direction that I am saying we are heading, how would that force anybody to do anything? It is no different from saying that everyone has the right to an education, which is a right that we have recognized for a hundred years. But no one forces anyone to provide that education to people. Similarly, no one forces anyone to provide medical care under Medicare, or under Medicaid, or under the VA medical system. But anyone who is eligible under those programs, which is close to half the population, has the right to receive medical care. The only "forcing" that goes on is that we are all "forced" to pay for those programs, but that is no different from being forced to pay for fire protection, or police, or roads, or the military, or schools or garbage collection, or any other service, whether or not an individual wants government to provide that service, and whether or not we might have need for that service. Arkady, I think it is interesting that you are celebrating the recognition of a right to own firearms, but you think it would be fascistic to recognize a right to medical care. If you have a right to own a gun, I ought to at least have a right to be treated for the gunshot wounds that you might cause me. Seems only fair. .-= Joe Markowitz´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.hopeandchange.net/2009/09/senate-finance-committee-members-tell.html" rel="nofollow">Senate Finance Committee members tell the truth.</a> =-. If our civilization were to evolve to the point where we recognized a right to medical care, which is the direction that I am saying we are heading, how would that force anybody to do anything? It is no different from saying that everyone has the right to an education, which is a right that we have recognized for a hundred years. But no one forces anyone to provide that education to people. Similarly, no one forces anyone to provide medical care under Medicare, or under Medicaid, or under the VA medical system. But anyone who is eligible under those programs, which is close to half the population, has the right to receive medical care. The only “forcing” that goes on is that we are all “forced” to pay for those programs, but that is no different from being forced to pay for fire protection, or police, or roads, or the military, or schools or garbage collection, or any other service, whether or not an individual wants government to provide that service, and whether or not we might have need for that service.

Arkady, I think it is interesting that you are celebrating the recognition of a right to own firearms, but you think it would be fascistic to recognize a right to medical care. If you have a right to own a gun, I ought to at least have a right to be treated for the gunshot wounds that you might cause me. Seems only fair.
.-= Joe Markowitz´s last blog ..Senate Finance Committee members tell the truth. =-.

]]> By: Harrison http://capitolcommentary.com/2009/09/30/obama-says-weve-been-waiting-since-teddy-roosevelt/#comment-2043 Harrison Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:50:45 +0000 http://harrisonprice.com/?p=2470#comment-2043 Joe, if the Universal Declaration of Human Rights said to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge would this make it a good idea? I go by what's in our Constitution. Joe, if the Universal Declaration of Human Rights said to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge would this make it a good idea? I go by what’s in our Constitution.

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