The war is really besides the point of this, it's only a point of view. Your comment has nothing to do with the main point of the topic. If you opose the health care law, join the suit, that's all I'm trying to say..
you're the one that mentioned it:
It's a small price to pay to fight for the rights of your country, especially given that our soldiers are dying all the time, defending our freedom.
it's not a "point of view" regarding health care, it's entirely redundant. It's like saying that you think watermelons cost too much and reducing their cost is a small price for grocery stores t opay given that soldiers are dying all the time, defending your freedom, which is clearly ridiculous.
This has nothing to do with the Tea Party or the "left" or "right" side of the government. It's about standing up for the United States' rights to free enterprise.
I can't believe, there are actually people opposed to government subsidized/owned health care. In Canada(And I believe in the UK), health care is free. It's paid for from the federal taxes that I get taken off my pay, and if I didn't have a job, it's still free. I don't need "health insurance" because in essence I get it essentially free with the taxes I have to pay anyway. See, that's the difference. The federal taxes I pay go right back into services that I can take advantage of if I'm sick or injured. Sure, there are similar services in the U.S (Medicare/Medicaid, welfare, and so forth, but comparing the two I find that we aren't spending a good quarter of our taxes into "national defense",(seriously, does the average person really see a personal benefit to that? No.) and that some of our taxes are actually being put into the deficit, something which certain other countries seem to be entirely ignoring, for the most part. I don't doubt a dissimiliar situation in the UK, although for reasons that should be obvious I have a habit of Watching my country rather closely
Which brings me to another point:
It's a small price to pay to fight for the rights of your country
Yes, fight for your right to pay for what nearly the rest of the world is getting for free. That's certainly a worthy cause. Because everybody knows Canada, the U.K, Australia, Brazil (I think) and all of those countries with federally funded and publically available health care. Are clearly all communist/Socialist. HOW DARE their governments actually provide free services to the people! Somebody ought to bomb them for their insolence.
All that being said, health care isn't perfect even in those countries, there are of course doctor, nurse and bed shortages, there have been a few strike threats, and there have even been strikes (which was unusual since they couldn't actually stop working entirely since it's an essential service). Even with all those issues, at least here you can't slip a doctor a few hundred dollars and bribe your way past that 8 year old on chemo-therapy because you sprained your foot. They aren't a place of business. They should be one of the few bastions in democracy where the hog-nosed idea of capitalism hasn't eroded away the last bits of humanity and causes people to be "turned away" (told to die on a street corner) because the poor hospital has to remain profitable. the words "profit margin" should be as far away from places like hospitals. These are peoples lives, not "customers" that are being dealt with.
