Reply #28: I can't believe even Dems now are using the "raise your taxes" scare on healthcare !

[K Gardner]

Our police protection is "mandated" by this definition.
Our fire protection is "mandated" by this definition.
Our mail is delivered by "mandate" by this definition.

Take away the word mandate. It is a badbadbad word to associate with providing medical care for the citizens of our country. Watch Sicko, if you haven't. Do some independent research. Don't believe everything a politician says.. or even people on this board for that matter, LOL.

Medicaid has a 3% overhead operating budget as compared to 30% for filty, scumsucking insurance companies who are killing our fellow Americans. There are 2 million people employed by insurance companies whose SOLE job is to find a way to deny claims, deny care, deny medicine to sick people. These are people who would continue to be employed without Universal Single Payer, i.e., Medicaid for all.

I didn't mean for this to end up a rant.. sorry.. this is my pet peeve issue. I go to work everyday in a place where people (most without insurance) come to die. This issue needs to be transparent.

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