It really burns me that the Iraqis people get their health care "free" paid for by the U.S. And It's mandatory for me?

Similar questions: burns Iraqis people health care free paid mandatory.

GFG Good f**in Grief. You seem to have a short memory. A while back we went in and invaded that country.

For no discernible reason. Colin Powell, when given the info he was supposed to give to the UN, said, and I roughly quote: "You want me to say THIS S**T?!". Even there in the rarified strata, they knew it was all B****** Sh*****.

Which was of course borne out when we did not find a smidgen of WMDs.In the process of doing this pointless thing, we outright killed about 140,000 Iraqis. Out of 14 million. Only 1%.

So equivalently, that would be like some ornery foreign power coming over here, on the pretext that we were working on something nasty, like a Britney Bomb, and killing THREE MILLION AMERICANS. And oh, we wrecked their water and power and road and health care systems and economy, leading to mass unemployment and about 1.4 million Iraqis dying. Proportionally, that's about 150 MILLION AMERICANS UNEMPLOYED and THIRTY MILLION AMERICANS dying of dysentery, malaria, untreated infections, and whatnot.

But hey, we give them $3.72 each, per year, as recompense. And you think that's too much. Precious..

1 well, the remedy, if it is indeed true that the US foots the bill for Iraq's medical system, is to urge your elected officials to support socialized medicine, here.

Well, the remedy, if it is indeed true that the US foots the bill for Iraq's medical system, is to urge your elected officials to support socialized medicine, here.

2 It burns me that you haven't the faintest conception of how the budget in Iraq works, yet you come here to rant about it. Iraq has had government-sponsored health care since before Saddam Hussein took over. This is something the Iraqis take for granted; remove it as a government service and you'd be destroying yet another bit of their government.

They spend far less of their money on health care than we do; $500 per capita, compared to $4,500 per capita in the US. (ucatlas.ucsc.edu/spend.php). The US gives money to Iraq to try to rebuild what we destroyed.

Our total foreign aid budget to Iraq is $50 million, less than the $52 billion we give Serbia and an infinitesimal fraction of the $2.4 billion we give Israel and $1.1 billion we give Egypt (http://www.usaid.gov/policy/budget/cbj2010/2010_CBJ_Summary_Tables.pdf) It's a trivial fraction of their $70 billion budget. The US does not pay for Iraqi health care, except in the general sense that we're foreign aid donors, and our foreign aid budget doesn't come even close to paying their health care bill. They have a state-run health care system.

You could have had one if you'd wanted one.

It burns me that you haven't the faintest conception of how the budget in Iraq works, yet you come here to rant about it. Iraq has had government-sponsored health care since before Saddam Hussein took over. This is something the Iraqis take for granted; remove it as a government service and you'd be destroying yet another bit of their government.

They spend far less of their money on health care than we do; $500 per capita, compared to $4,500 per capita in the US. (ucatlas.ucsc.edu/spend.php). The US gives money to Iraq to try to rebuild what we destroyed.

Our total foreign aid budget to Iraq is $50 million, less than the $52 billion we give Serbia and an infinitesimal fraction of the $2.4 billion we give Israel and $1.1 billion we give Egypt (http://www.usaid.gov/policy/budget/cbj2010/2010_CBJ_Summary_Tables.pdf) It's a trivial fraction of their $70 billion budget. The US does not pay for Iraqi health care, except in the general sense that we're foreign aid donors, and our foreign aid budget doesn't come even close to paying their health care bill. They have a state-run health care system.

You could have had one if you'd wanted one.

MrItty replied to post #2: 3 Pam, I know I've had a couple drinks tonight, but I may be in love with you.

Pam, I know I've had a couple drinks tonight, but I may be in love with you.

SWFpdx replied to post #3: 4 Funny... I was thinking the same think sans drinks.

Funny... I was thinking the same think sans drinks.

" "Ok... Let's put partisan politics aside and talk about issues - Health Care" "Primary health care is the foundation of the health care system.It is the first point of contact people have with the h" "why the older people don't have health care" "How do you feel about some countries that have free health care for their people. " "Health care reform. Will I be able to add my 21yr old to my insurance if health care reform bill becomes law?" "Does anybody in politics really care about health care or are people who die or suffer.

This really isn't about politics or the health care bill ... but isn't it odd that.

Ok... Let's put partisan politics aside and talk about issues - Health Care.

Primary health care is the foundation of the health care system. It is the first point of contact people have with the h.

Why the older people don't have health care.

How do you feel about some countries that have free health care for their people.

Health care reform. Will I be able to add my 21yr old to my insurance if health care reform bill becomes law?

Does anybody in politics really care about health care or are people who die or suffer.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.