What do the people who oppose universal health care want? Or do they even want an answer?

I offer this example from the online Washington Post as an instnce where a person asked a question, but was not ready for an answer. They just wanted to fuss. "Reston, Va.

: Thanks for taking my question.In last night's town hall meeting in Reston Jim Moran was asked to pledge to enroll in the new health system. He quickly and emphatically said yes, and that in fact he already is taking part in a Government sponsored plan as part of FEHB. Later on a follow-up comment was made that he had not answered the question.

Jim Moran again clearly said yes. The woman with the microphone keep yelling that he had not. I've been trying my best to understand what the protesters are so unhappy about, but this just seemed silly and childish.Do you have any insight into why some in the audience thought he hadn't answered the question?

Washingtonpost. Com: Moran Defends Public OptionMichael A. Fletcher: I really can't speak to that particular incident.

But I've been struck--and surprised Asked by Gary4books 27 months ago Similar questions: people oppose universal health care answer Politics & Law.

Similar questions: people oppose universal health care answer.

I/we want the government to pay its debts--all of them--before incurring more. Saddling the government with a couple trillions dollars in borrowing to "solve" an economic "crisis" that was created last year is simply a bad idea. It's so bad an idea that it looks from this angle to be something being done to hasten the collapse of the U.S.Economy.

Whether that's to happen or not, I (we) would like the government to obtain a balanced budget, like everyone's favorite other Democrat President Clinton managed. We're not poor; why are we acting as if we are?.

I just want to be able to make my own decisions, I like freedom, I do not need a government bureaucrat telling me ... "Don't eat this, eat that! " "You will die on this day, mandatory death at age 60. " Here "we will give you $.20 out of your paycheck to spend on one of the following: 1.

A B. Obama Bumper Sticker, 2. A I Heart Health Care Sticker, 3.

Give this $.20 back to the government. Otherwise your choices are gone, we make them for you! " ... You just do not understand.

The government providing health care means they RUN YOUR LIFE .... maybe you want this, but I do not want it for me. I want to choose my own doctor and want to choose whether I have Health Insurance and what level and I want to make my own choices about how I die ... actually I am fine with God making that decision, I do not need a government bureaucrat's help with such decisions! If you're going to tell me universal health care is not about controlling what I eat, where and when I go to see a doctor ... when you or I die, you do not have a clue!

This is what is in the bill. This is what government control is all about, it is what certain people have been working for, FOR YEARS! Yes, they will LIE, cheat and steal to get this kind of control and "no" I do not believe the liars when they say something different than they have said before, or that is written in the bill that might be law.

The house bill would give the government total control of my bank account. I don't want government bureaucrats grabbing cash out of my accounts at their whim. They have enough money already!

This is all about Government CONTROL! I want less of it! Not MORE!.

They want a lesson in how to overcome fear and closed-mindedness at the height of the GW Bush era I took a taxi across country in Colorado and was shocked to listen to the taxi driver. She had her 94 year old mother in the car, a senile woman, because there was nowhere else for her to go. The driver explained there was no health care provision, they had no insurance (could not afford it), and no way of looking after this old woman.

And then, to my astonishment, she started praising GWB, syaing he looked after and understood "hard working people like us". Make of this story what you will, but I see something in there about "life is a struggle" (pioneer spirit), "we don't take hand-outs" (pride), and, frankly, downright stupidity.

1 washingtonpost. Com: Moran Defends Public OptionMichael A. Fletcher: I really can't speak to that particular incident.

But I've been struck--and surprised--by the intensity of some of the opposition to health care reform. People worry about a government takeover of health care, but don't want cuts in Medicare or Medicaid. The president says continually that the goal of the reform would be to have as many people as possible keep the coverage they now have, but people raise questions about whether political leaders would enroll in the "public option" or the co-ops that may emerge.It is not all very rational, but it does speak to some mixture of deep seated anxiety and political gamesmanship that is out there.

The anxiety, I think, comes from the feeling the government has done a helluva lot lateley--bank bailouts, auto company bailouts, stimulus--and the net effect has been to probably avert a worse economic crisis, but not improve people's lives. It is not easy selling people on the idea that thinks could be much worse. But that may be the reality, and the push for health care reform appears to be complicated by that sentiment.

Meanwhile, people who for ideological or other reasons don't want reform appear to be exploiting that anxiety by raising wild charges --death panels, ratioining, ect. --that only make things more complicated. washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discus... .

Washingtonpost. Com: Moran Defends Public OptionMichael A. Fletcher: I really can't speak to that particular incident.

But I've been struck--and surprised--by the intensity of some of the opposition to health care reform. People worry about a government takeover of health care, but don't want cuts in Medicare or Medicaid. The president says continually that the goal of the reform would be to have as many people as possible keep the coverage they now have, but people raise questions about whether political leaders would enroll in the "public option" or the co-ops that may emerge.It is not all very rational, but it does speak to some mixture of deep seated anxiety and political gamesmanship that is out there.

The anxiety, I think, comes from the feeling the government has done a helluva lot lateley--bank bailouts, auto company bailouts, stimulus--and the net effect has been to probably avert a worse economic crisis, but not improve people's lives. It is not easy selling people on the idea that thinks could be much worse. But that may be the reality, and the push for health care reform appears to be complicated by that sentiment.

Meanwhile, people who for ideological or other reasons don't want reform appear to be exploiting that anxiety by raising wild charges --death panels, ratioining, ect. --that only make things more complicated. washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discus....

2 Personally I am not sure what the answer is...but I do know the government running the health care system is not a good answer. Think we are in debt now? Think we pay high taxes now?

Let the government run health care for an extended time and see where that gets us...

Personally I am not sure what the answer is...but I do know the government running the health care system is not a good answer. Think we are in debt now? Think we pay high taxes now?

Let the government run health care for an extended time and see where that gets us...

" "Health care?" "How do you feel about some countries that have free health care for their people. " "Does anyone have questions about the law that they would like answered? I need to answer a few more to level up in LAW." "what countries in the wold do not have universal health care?

Why the older people don't have health care.

Health Care Law 61% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law.

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

I need to answer a few more to level up in LAW.

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.