Hiya Becks,
While not a regular to this particular thread (actually, I avoid it like the plague), I can shed a bit of light on the subject as I do follow both sides. While it certainly depends upon the person you trust when getting your "news," the biggest protest is a state run anything. Most have turned out to be classic failures in this country. We no longer own our country, unemployment is sky-high, and every other house around here seems to be for sale and / or being lost due to foreclosure. Social security was a bad idea and is in due to run out in my lifetime and our social services are taxed to the limit. Catch a cold? Just TRY to see a doctor around here. It is to the emergency room for those with insurance, that is. Quite sad, really.
Obama isn't the first to try healthcare reform. Like Social Security, all know the system is broken but no one can really fix it. To me, Obama simply can't pay for it. His plan would come up with a state-run system that has major faults. It would be a cheaper alternative to those of us with insurance paid by our employers and would, eventually, bring further debt and make one have to fight for basic care. The fact that not a single Senator would apparently sign up for this option his/her self is telling. THAT is where people calling "communism" comes into play. If you do well, economically, why would you be forced to give up even more of your pay to pay for a state run healthcare system? My family is in the medical field and most don't like it. They complain that the already skyrocketing price of healthcare in this country would get worse as prices would suffer artificial inflation when the private insurance firms are effectively pushed out by the government.
So...can't pay for it would be my general answer. We are already taxed like crazy. Healthcare costs are artificially high as it is and Obama is really flopping about what HIS ideas are and how he can pay for them.
Just my 2cents and anyone who really knows me knows that I am NOT an Obama hater. Not just Americans exercising "free speech" nor organizations moving their followers to disrupt these "town hall meetings," IMO. Just an awful lot of us who pay a literal ton in taxes with very little payback as it is just asking some quite valid questions about this new plan.
Like the Ford buyout, we weren't asked and the government just stepped in without asking if We the People wanted to buy Ford. Hasn't really helped yet.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Becks from Saturday, September 12, 2009 10:16:10 PM)| |  | Becks wrote: | | Ok maybe some of my American friends on here can help me out with this, cos something that's going on over there at the moment is really puzzling.
I've just seen on the news hoardes of Americans protesting against President Obamas healthcare plan. What is wrong with this plan that people feel the need to protest about it? Are some people listening to the likes of Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity a bit too much? I see Obama getting called a socialist, marxist, communist - whether or not the people saying these things have any idea what they mean, I don't know, some of them spout those things of in one breath seemingly unaware that they are all different things. Is it scaremongering from President Obamas opponents, trying to make people believe the new healthcare plan will cover illegal immigrants, that his policies are socialist etc? Can anyone shed any light on this for me - cos at the moment a lot of the people I see complaining actually look pretty stupid cos it doesn't seem any of them really know why they are protesting and what about exactly. Or are just protesting because they can LOL! |
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