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Old 11-19-2009, 12:10 PM   #282
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Originally Posted by desertgrandma View Post
And yes. I believe we have a large percentage of people who believe the government should take care of them, from health insurance, to welfare, to bailing them out of houses they never should have bought in the first place, because they knew they couldn't afford them.
These are usually the same people that complain that taxes are to high and the government doesn't do enough for them.

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Originally Posted by kazbates View Post
That's it in a nutshell. The difference between people who think they should be "taken care of" and those who take care of themselves. That's really at the core of the healthcare debate here.
I kind of disagree with this. The idea is not to "give" everyone heath care. The goal is to make health care affordable and available to everyone.

I do think to much emfasis though has been on the "public option" and "government takeover" and on insurance... rather than on solving the root problem of the cost of health care. And not the answer isn't tort refom... we have that in Florida and my heath insurance and other costs has still gone up each year.

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