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Started by John Lander
Tue, 02 Nov 2004 22:09
Kerry would ration healthcare & raise taxes
Author: John Lander
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 22:09
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 22:09
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Kerry would ration healthcare & raise taxes There is much unspoken in John Kerry's plan for our healthcare system. His plans would require such a tremendous increase in funding that increasing taxes alone would be insufficient. He would also have to implement a rationing system for healthcare delivery. There is no other way to do what Kerry plans. You cannot just add tens of millions of people to the healthcare rolls without providing adequate funding. There is no free lunch. You get what you pay for. Unfortunately, what Kerry plans to do would bring us all higher taxes and rationed healthcare. What is rationed healthcare? Here's an example. Your 78 year old mother is in the hospital for a broken hip. They place a catheter in her so they don't have to change the bed. She gets a urinary tract infection, so the doctors prescribe an antibiotic which cures the urinary tract infection but causes diarrhea which turns out to be an infection in the intestinal tract. The doctor prescribes the cheapest medication rather that the most effective medication. The medication is hard on the stomach and your mother stops eating, she loses a lot of weight and the infection gets worse. Now the antibiotic can't cure the infection but it slows it down. But your mother can't regain the lost weight. The doctor writes "failure to thrive" in your mother's chart. Soon the nurses begin to tell you that your mother has lived a good long life. You wonder why they say this. Your mother's diarrhea returns and the doctors treat her with the cheapest antibiotic, which makes her feel sick and she refuses food and she loses more weight. Now she is skin and bones and miserable. The doctors tell you she has lived a good long life. You see the words "failure to thrive" in her chart again. Then the doctor tells you that your mother is wasting away because she is not eating. Your mother is in pain and she yells at the nurses. The nurses begin to pay less attention to your mother. One day the doctor gives you the business card of a social worker and suggests that you consider hospice for your mother. The doctor says it isn't fair that your mother should be in such pain. He says she has no quality of life. The social worker is eager to talk to you, to transfer your mother that very day if possible. She assures you that your mother will feel no pain... This is the type of rationed healthcare that is in store for us if John Kerry is allowed to re-engineer our healthcare system. Healthcare providers will be forced by limited resources to make a judgement about how much care each of their patients is entitled to and to provide healthcare that will best satisfy the bottom line. And if they judge that you have lived a "good long life" they may well be less likely to give you the best of care. Think about it. It comes down to limited resources. Who gets the best care? the children, mothers, fathers or the elderly? Which would you choose with limited resources? Is this what you want in your future? John Kerry would be a disaster for our healthcare system. There is still time to vote! Get out and vote now!
Re: Kerry would ration healthcare & raise taxes
Author: Ivan Marsh
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 23:22
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 23:22
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On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 14:09:11 -0800, John Lander wrote: > Kerry would ration healthcare & raise taxes As opposed to our current situation? The largest debt in American history sort of trumps the tax and spend democrat whine don't you think? -- i.m. The USA Patriot Act is the most unpatriotic act in American history.
Re: Kerry would ration healthcare & raise taxes
Author: Uncle Samuel
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 23:29
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 23:29
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Ivan Marsh wrote: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110104/content/stop_the_tape_2.guest.html I just want to leave you with one thought here again on the Osama bin Laden tape. Whatever, whatever the liberals in this country think or say -- and the two are not mutually exclusive, by the way -- a John Kerry victory after the bin Laden tape is going to give Osama bin Laden bragging rights across the Middle East. You want to talk about creating a whole new generation of terrorists? After this bin Laden tape, if Kerry goes out and wins this election, bin Laden's going to be able to flex his muscles and claim credit for it throughout the Middle East, and they will have done it without firing a shot. Imagine what they will be able to do when they fire the next shots! If they think they're able to spin and swing this election to John Kerry with a tape from bin Laden -- and they will; make no mistake about it. Because in this tape bin Laden is threatening individual states for their security, and he's echoing Democratic Party talking points that John Kerry himself has used. You haven't seen the stuff hit the fan yet until we see if Kerry wins this and you watch the celebrations in the Middle East with Osama reaching heights exalted heretofore unimagined. This guy is going to be the closest thing to a living god that region will ever have had simply because of this tape, and they're going to spin it over there as having been the deciding factor in our presidential electio, if Kerry wins. Mark my words, folks. -- ��ࡱ�
Re: Kerry would ration healthcare & raise taxes
Author: gbfmif
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 01:09
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 01:09
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Uncle Samuel wrote: > Ivan Marsh wrote: > > http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110104/content/stop_the_tape_2.guest.html > > I just want to leave you with one thought here again on the Osama bin > Laden tape. Whatever, whatever the liberals in this country think or say > -- and the two are not mutually exclusive, by the way -- a John Kerry > victory after the bin Laden tape is going to give Osama bin Laden > bragging rights across the Middle East. You want to talk about creating > a whole new generation of terrorists? After this bin Laden tape, if > Kerry goes out and wins this election, bin Laden's going to be able to > flex his muscles and claim credit for it throughout the Middle East, and > they will have done it without firing a shot. Imagine what they will be > able to do when they fire the next shots! in a word - nuts, we are all aware of your bias, so OK - it is over or will be tomorrow with any luck - lets wait and see as we will all have to deal with the result whatever that is snip the rest of this - well - whatever
Re: Kerry would ration healthcare & raise taxes
Author: Uncle Samuel
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 02:07
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 02:07
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gbfmif wrote: > Uncle Samuel wrote: > > >>Ivan Marsh wrote: >> >>http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110104/content/stop_the_tape_2.guest.html >> >> I just want to leave you with one thought here again on the Osama bin >>Laden tape. Whatever, whatever the liberals in this country think or say >>-- and the two are not mutually exclusive, by the way -- a John Kerry >>victory after the bin Laden tape is going to give Osama bin Laden >>bragging rights across the Middle East. You want to talk about creating >>a whole new generation of terrorists? After this bin Laden tape, if >>Kerry goes out and wins this election, bin Laden's going to be able to >>flex his muscles and claim credit for it throughout the Middle East, and >>they will have done it without firing a shot. Imagine what they will be >>able to do when they fire the next shots! > > > in a word - You're a traitor. -- ��ࡱ�
Re: Kerry would ration healthcare & raise taxes
Author: gbfmif
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 04:25
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 04:25
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nice snipage in the thread to continue your message and bias - I am trying to not provide a bias, but rather a message to go vote your view on issues you beleive in - this is almost over - so may be irrelevant at this time, lets wait and see Call me what you will as it really is irrelevant have a nice life Uncle Samuel wrote: > gbfmif wrote: > > > Uncle Samuel wrote: > > > > > >>Ivan Marsh wrote: > >> > >>http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110104/content/stop_the_tape_2.guest.html > >> > >> I just want to leave you with one thought here again on the Osama bin > >>Laden tape. Whatever, whatever the liberals in this country think or say > >>-- and the two are not mutually exclusive, by the way -- a John Kerry > >>victory after the bin Laden tape is going to give Osama bin Laden > >>bragging rights across the Middle East. You want to talk about creating > >>a whole new generation of terrorists? After this bin Laden tape, if > >>Kerry goes out and wins this election, bin Laden's going to be able to > >>flex his muscles and claim credit for it throughout the Middle East, and > >>they will have done it without firing a shot. Imagine what they will be > >>able to do when they fire the next shots! > > > > > > in a word - > > You're a traitor. > > -- > ��ࡱ
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