Reply #161: You are correct!

[dustbunnie]

:) Interesting factoid: Douglas's daughter Shirley married Donald Sutherland, and therefore Kiefer Sutherland is his grandson. 24's Jack Bauer is related to the Canadian who innovated the health care system. Weird when you think about it.

In general - should the US achieve universal payer, the corporations would take a hit immediately. Many people stick with jobs they despise just so their families can have access to health care. Corporations literally blackmail the population into working slave hours for slave wages with the constant threat of unemployment, and thus, no health care hanging over their heads.

Imagine if you had a family of six and worked in terrible conditions for rotten pay. You have a year's worth of savings to live on. Wouldn't you be more apt to tell the corp to shove it and look for something better, because you know your family will at least have access to a doctor and other health care services should the need arise?

And once the barn door is open, you can't shut it again. (Or however that saying goes.) Next you'd have people clamoring for civilized maternity leave, and God knows what else, just like all the other socialized countries. People might even demand vaca time! :wow: That's what happens when people have automatic health care!!!

The Churches HATE the idea of single payer, as people will leave in droves. Currently many people are affiliated with a Church because these are the people who will lend a hand if disaster strikes. Rethugs and fundies love that. It's the old Reader's Digest pull-at-the-heartstrings meme... that when people are in trouble, their friends, neighbors and congregation will rise to the occasion and help out. (sniffle.) Once "charity" moves to the government, they fear people will become numbed out drones working for the system, and won't have a need for religion anymore. The populations of socialized countries are far from numbed out drones, but they DO leave the Church. That's a fact.