The Horrors of Privatized Healthcare

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Sunday June 19, 2011 · 1:49 PM PDT

2011/06/19 · 13:49

Yesterday, I was reading an article on Alternet about nine countries that are better at taking care of their people. While it was a great article, I saw it repeating a narrative that strikes me as untrue, yet that many liberals are happy to just go along with.

If you have access to the best health care in the United States, then you have some of the best care in the world.

Many liberals talk about how our access to healthcare is terrible, but those that can afford it receive some of the best healthcare in the world. While I've never experienced healthcare in other countries, I've experienced first hand this countries healthcare system. I've experienced the total lack of care, and the healthcare providers trying to get away without actually providing healthcare. I've witnessed them make such simple, easily prevented mistakes that it cost people their lives. This article isn't an attack on healthcare providers, but the system that allows them to be so careless and provide as little in the way of actual care as possible.

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Tuesday June 07, 2011 · 1:55 PM PDT

2011/06/07 · 13:55

I swear if I hear this line of power corrupting men in this news cycle again I'm going to put my fist through a wall. Every time a famous man is involved in a scandal involving sex people get behind the phoney conclusion that men behave badly because of their power. This argument would only make sense if you lived in a vacuum completely separate from reality. Do men of limited power and resource not cheat on their wives? Do they not get caught having sex with the office assistants, the babysitter, or wife's sister? I'm so tired of this bogus spin that power somehow makes men act out sexually. It's not that they are powerful men, it's that they are men!

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Wednesday June 01, 2011 · 1:41 PM PDT

2011/06/01 · 13:41

Let me first disclose that I am not Muslim, nor have I ever really studied Islam. Most of what I know about it I've heard from others or looked up online. I was raised a Christian, and became an atheist/agnostic as an adult. I have a much better understanding of Christianity than of Islam. If I get anything wrong in this, please feel free to correct me in the comments section.

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Tuesday May 31, 2011 · 1:51 AM PDT

2011/05/31 · 01:51

From the get go, the whole Weinergate story sounded fishy. A feisty congressman who's rather proficient with Twitter and other social networks and has amassed a sizable following would have to be either profoundly stupid or incredibly drunk to send a dirty pic to a girl on his own account. He claims his account was hacked, and whose to say it wasn't? His last name is Weiner, the picture was of a weiner; sounds like a juvenile prank, not unlike the one played on me when one of my accounts was hacked several years ago. Then you take into account the fact that ~~the evidence was forged~~, the scandal was eluded to weeks before it took place, and it was widely propagated by the notorious Andrew Breitbart; who is famous for creating fake scandals aimed at liberal targets; and the whole thing just falls apart.

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Thursday May 26, 2011 · 4:26 PM PDT

2011/05/26 · 16:26

Freedom is a funny thing. The more of it people have, the more opportunity they have to restrict other people's freedom. Both the left and the right talk about protecting freedom and liberty, but one thing neither side talks about is that some freedoms must be restricted. Yes, freedom and liberty must be protected and preserved, but not all freedoms and liberties should be protected. People should not have the freedom to deny other people's right to freedom and liberty.

SixDollarLiberal

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Wednesday May 25, 2011 · 9:23 PM PDT

2011/05/25 · 21:23

Rand Paul makes himself out to be a libertarian. One of his big inspirations is Ayn Rand, a woman who believed that the value of other people is overrated. She believed no one should be forced to pay taxes; taxes are theft in the name of altruism and that only moochers needed handouts. She glorified the major producers, seeing them as the ultimate step, not in need of reliance from anyone. These are the philosophies that Rand Paul and many other Republicans, including Paul Ryan, are embracing right now.

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Monday May 23, 2011 · 3:22 PM PDT

2011/05/23 · 15:22

In Tim Pawlenty's speech today, declaring his candidacy for president, I heard him say something that made me do a double-take.

These are serious times and they need serious people with serious solutions

Immediately after hearing that, it made me think of a line from one of my favorite movies, The American President. In one of the final scenes, the fictional president Andrew Shepherd makes a speech that has a line frighteningly similar to the one Tim Pawlenty said.

We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them.

If you haven't seen the movie, The American President; I recommend you see it. It's a good movie, with Michael Douglas as the president and Martin Sheen as the Chief of Staff. I've always felt that Martin Sheen's role in this movie led to him getting the part as president on West Wing.

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Thursday May 19, 2011 · 3:30 PM PDT

2011/05/19 · 15:30

Messaging has never been the Democrats strong suit. In recent polling on major issues, Americans seem to share more ideology with Dennis Kucinich than Paul Ryan. Yet much of the nation continues to vote Republican, a party that represents only 2% of the nation's interests. Republicans manage to split the nations votes because they are very good at what they do; and that is selling the American people a load of goods. They dress their ideas up as the finest gold; when in reality they are lead, painted with gold colored paint. There is no reason why the party of 2% should be a force of reckoning in the American political system; and the only way to put them in their place is to beat them at their own game, messaging. Democrats have to sell their ideas to the American people while revealing Republican ideas as the sack of soot it really is.

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Tuesday May 17, 2011 · 9:35 PM PDT

2011/05/17 · 21:35

Herman Cain, GOP hopeful for president in 2012, is a strong believer in the Fairtax proposal. Fairtax supporters, in addition to lying about the amount of money the rich are paying now in taxes, also like to say that the poorest Americans will be better off with Fairtax. However, these claims just don't add up with reality. Let's take a look at the facts:

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Tuesday May 10, 2011 · 12:37 PM PDT

2011/05/10 · 12:37

Today Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced that he has introduced the latest legislation to try to get America on a sustainable, health care for all system. The latest bid for single-payer was also taken by Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) who issued a companion bill in the House. Both bills seek to eliminate the cost of healthcare in this country by removing the middle man. Insurance companies spend millions of dollars on administrative fees and disqualifying patients, all while reaping a huge profits to provide us with necessary care. Removing that profit incentive will drastically cut health care costs, which currently accounts for one-fifth of the U.S. economy.

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Tuesday May 03, 2011 · 2:26 PM PDT

2011/05/03 · 14:26

Many conservatives and libertarians are touting more privatization and less government control of key programs. Our schools, our emergency services, our social security, even our prisons; there are proposals out there to privatize just about everything. I could tell you about where our economy would be today if everybody's social security was in the stock market when it collapsed, or try to scare you with plausible scenarios about what could happen if these things are privatized. However, I don't need to scare you with what-ifs, because I am an example of what happens when privatization is allowed to run its course. I am one of a small minority of people who have attended a form of privatized school known as a non-public school.

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Saturday April 30, 2011 · 4:56 PM PDT

2011/04/30 · 16:56

In this time of great economic unrest, where rich billionaires and Wall Street tycoons broke our economy, the blame is being put in some of the most unusual of places. However, none is more disturbing than the vitriol being thrown out at the American public school teacher. They are being accused of living high on the hog, of being union thugs, and of being lazy whiners who haven't earned their pay. My recent experience on Twitter has found that no position gains more ire and criticism than defending a teacher. Supporting abortion doesn't get me as much flak as supporting a teacher. When did the teacher become the most vile, repugnant creature in America?

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