STUPID: YES. LIKE THIS COMMENT FROM A LADY FROM OHIO>> SHE WAS NOT GOING TO VOTE FOR KUCINICH BECAUSE SHE WAS GETTING TIRED OF THE “JOKES ABOUT HIM ON THE LATE NIGHT SHOW!
THAT WAS MUCH MORE IMPORTANT TO HER THAN THE ISSUES SHE PROBABLY DOES NOT UNDERSTAND OR GRAB.

THE RISE OF OBAMA HAS MORE TO DO BECAUSE HE IS CHARISMATIC THAN ANYTHING ELSE>>CERTAINLY THIS NOT ABOT CHANGE>>WHAT CHANGES???> HE SPEAKS VERY WELL BUT IN CIRCLE OFFERING NO SUBSTANCE ABOUT WHAT CHANGES HE IS GOING TO BRING>>> THAT”S WHAT ATTRACT PEOPLE!
WE DESEVE THE GOVERNEMENT WE GET! IT”S A REFLECTION OF US!

Now don’t get me wrong, I think anyone who is seriously ill, regardless of immigration status, should recieve prompt medical care–that is the humane and decent thing to do. However, in order to put a stop to this we need to fully secure our borders once and for all and deport many of the illegal aliens, especially the ones that have committed crimes while here. Many say that America can’t be the world’s policeman. Well, we certainly can’t be the world’s emergency room either!

I don’t want to pay taxes for ANYONE! Not congress not you not the poor not the rich not the smart or the stupid or the lame or the purple pink green or grey.

When the government forces me to pay for someone else it is theft. Or more correctly extortion. If I don’t pay they will use force or the threat of force to make me.

I agree that a not for profit single pay system could work but it should not be forced on anyone at the point of a gun, and that is what happens if you refuse to pay your taxes.

Of course hospitals should be allowed to accept only the patients that can pay. Otherwise they go bankrupt like the one I worked for. They were mainly taking medicaid and medicare which was underpaying. they should have been allowed to kick them out too.

Yes the insurance companies are a scam. However, they are a scam made possible by the goverment through a host of regulations.

Less Government = More Liberty.

Peace!

You do not want to pay! Again fine! Then you have to accept that a hospital should have the right NOT to treat you if you do not have the money and/or you do not want to pay a payroll tax for that insurance.

I am against a free health care system(Paid thru income taxes) because you have to make people contribute directly thru premium (or Payroll Tax) with a co=pay to make people more responsible ..otherwiise it is like at a wedding. If the drink are free you consume more than if you had to pay for them.

You are not a Republican but you sure talk like one.. where they have no problem with socializing the costs (or risks) with taxpayers money but they want the profits to be privatized.

You have to force everybody to pay into it , because we know the free loaders are going to want to be treated and not pay for it, if we let them decide if they want or not participate with the costs. You knw what the answer wiil be!

Systematic incompetence is part of the problem. But it cannot be grasped in a few sentences.

As a young academic I spent many long years in the Late Roman Empire, among other places, and I remember during those years one of the questions that kept recurring–how could a whole society somehow miss a simple and obvious solution to this or that problem, and opt for the worst choice in every gambit?

I am no longer that young, and by choice no longer an academic, and I will not say I have a clear answer yet, but I suspect I am considerably closer to it, I think, than I was then.

Part of the answer hinges on accountability, not as punishment or revenge, but simply as a matter of necessary social and economic feedback.

What is wrong with the US? The Dems had a chance to actually vote in a great man and they blew it, same for the Republicans. What is wrong with us, are we stupid or just that easily led?

I know it’s a differnt topic but I just couldn’t help myself.

Of course there a about a million definitions of Fascism. but for me it’s easy enough to understand (if not define) the current fascism we live under.

Corporations use undue influence to influence our government who uses nationalism and religion to wage wars both internal and external for the benifit of the cororations without regard for the people.

In other words, wave the flag bring up God and the sheep will follow. The corporations get rich the people die and who cares as long as it’s all done in the name of God and Country?

That probably cannot be done consitutionally, however, since employment is voluntary.

I say here only that what the employers offer, required or gratuitious, and also including Labor unions, in the way of “Health Benefits” is mostly another version of the same old corporate frauds, in which the private insurers, and after them the employers and union leadership, are the main beneficiaries, not the insured.

I have a rather drawn out set of reasons why, Libertarian in thrust, but it is in concept that much different from what Kucinich is getting at, which seems closer to the present German system.