Obama slams insurers, demands health care reform

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shadow9d9

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Here is just one example of how our government manages Health Care

To explain, you get them through medicare and sell what you don't need or use. If you tell your doctor that you are on an intensive blood glucose monitoring regimen, he will prescribe up to 8 times more than you might actually use.

ALL of medical supplies for diabetics are like this on Ebay. Lancets, syringes, meters.

You can even get a $5,000 pump through medicare and decide that you don't like it. Take a wild guess where you can sell it.

Health care reform is a vehicle to increase the wealth redistribution already happening now. NOTHING MORE.


All taxes are wealth distribution by nature. Therefore, the military, postal system, infrastructure, medical research, FDA, police, fire, and everything related to government is "wealth distribution." Your "argument" is a joke.
 

blackangst1

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All taxes are wealth distribution by nature. Therefore, the military, postal system, infrastructure, medical research, FDA, police, fire, and everything related to government is "wealth distribution." Your "argument" is a joke.

I think youre taking that phrase out of context. When we talk about wealth redistribution, we're talking about redistributing directly to taxpayers, not for services. I think you probably knew this.
 

cubeless

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I think youre taking that phrase out of context. When we talk about wealth redistribution, we're talking about redistributing directly to taxpayers, not for services. I think you probably knew this.

the term is definitely 'wealth re-distribution', and it is the transfer from taxpayers to folk who don't pay taxes, in general...

and your antagonist describes services that are of benefit to all, for the most part, and not the transfer of wealth specifically to some disadvantaged class from an advantaged class...