US Marine Talks To His Congressman

This is someone who already gets government healthcare. its too funny and the whole nazi bullshit is a right wing talking a point. its sad they are getting these people to go against their own best interests. If the right really feels this one then they should push for a bill to get rid of medicare and social security. fuck its even got the word social in it. lol

I don't think anyone would have a problem if EVERYONE that got government health care served in the military. If you can't see the difference between giving benefits to a fucking veteran and some welfare case, well, I don't even know what to say.

I never thought about this really. So, I don't have a choice which company I get my benefits through, I have limited options as what choices I have with my coverage, and on top of all of this.... I have to choose doctors from a list that my insurance company gave me.

Sounds like the government is already running health care!

I don't think anyone would have a problem if EVERYONE that got government health care served in the military. If you can't see the difference between giving benefits to a fucking veteran and some welfare case, well, I don't even know what to say.

People in this thread saying its all about Obama are ignorant. Many of the people that go to these town meetings were yelling about Bush, that is fact. More people are sick of both sides than you think and just want the government to leave them the fuck alone.

Things that should be done before the government takes any more action towards any single payer.

1) Allow insurance companies to sell over state lines.

2) Make insurance contracts longer than a year. Make them like term life. 5, 10, 20 year plans.

3) Massive tax cuts for employers who pay for employees health insurance.

4) Massive tax cuts for self-employed people when they buy health insurance.

5) Massive tax breaks for doctors who treat people for a discount or free.

Lets do a couple of these things before the government tries to take over health care.

This is exactlly what most people fail to realize. The difference is at least with the govt, any denials for treatment would be open to the public scrutiny via freedom of information act if nothing else.

Meanwhile if a private insurance company whom you pay a premium to denies you treatment, you have to spend countless tens of thousands of dollars and years trying to sue them. In the end if you are lucky and haven't died of what ever ailed you, you might win against their hundreds of lawyers, but likely winning the lottery is a better chance.

4) Massive tax cuts for self-employed people when they buy health insurance.

For the record. The guy in that video was called on randomly out of 3000 people. He wasn't expecting to be called on which is why he might seem nervous and unprepared obviously.


Now for all of you people crying that this is about Obama, blah, blah. Here's a little something for you.

"Not too long ago, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets with signs comparing our president to Adolf Hitler, painting him as ?the world?s biggest terrorist,? even calling outright for his killing. Here in New York City, posters of a cartoon George W. Bush replete with simulated bullet holes began springing up around town.

It was a time when Democratic politicians complained loudly whenever they felt their patriotism was being impugned. In those days, bumper stickers reminded us that ?Dissent is the Highest Form of Patriotism? and Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives, declared that disruptive protests were ?very American and very important.? Now that protests are directed against a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress, Nancy Pelosi thinks such disruptions are ?un-American.?

During the Bush era, the media looked the other way at the extremist element in the protest movement; the large number of protest signs bearing swastikas and mathematical formulae like ?Bush=Hitler? just didn?t interest them. But it did interest me, and because the media didn?t want to report it, I did some reporting of my own. The videos I posted online inadvertently launched me on a second career as a documentary filmmaker.

I recently dug through my old footage and found many examples of the same kind of inflammatory speech that the media and the Democratic Party?forgive the redundancy?now decry. What follows are just a few examples."

http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009...er-comparisons

It's not just Obama or Bush. It's all of them. They are punking each and every one you who doesn't see it.

Oh come on. Where was this outrage when we were massively expanding Medicare a few years back?

This is the kind of stuff Obama should be saying if he wants to convince people of anything. Whoever's advising him on what to say at appearances needs to get their head checked. He's playing too much defense when he should be playing offense.

See this is what I mean about ignorance. See being self employed I can tell you 100% of the health insuarance I buy is tax deductable. And has been for YEARS. So no need to do this it already exists.

I think we all agree that a veteran should get benefits for life. It's the least we can do. But it does seem a tad hypocritical when there is a rallying cry against socialism from someone in a socialized military receiving socialized health benefits. I guess socialism is OK as long as it pays his bills.