Some changes for america's health care, my opinion

[Duff McCartney]

If you want to cut the military budget, then why don't you propose drafting people into the military that are in social programs for extended periods. Make use of them instead of making them a drain ion the system.

please remember. A military is authorized by cons ution. Social programs aren't.

I think the military is a drain on the system. Not that people in the military are bad but our defense budget is more than the entire worlds combined! That's a joke. What's even more of a joke is the wars we are fighting in are against countries that can barely provide running water.

How would drafting people cut the military budget? It would add more to it. I know a military is authorized by the cons ution but nowhere does it say we have to spend over 500 billion dollars on it.

[Wild Cobra]

How would drafting people cut the military budget? It would add more to it. I know a military is authorized by the cons ution but nowhere does it say we have to spend over 500 billion dollars on it.

Fine.

Want to cut it, cut all costs first that are not authorized by cons ution.

Then we can talk about the military budget.

If you want to save government expenditures, look other places first.

[ElNono]

Want to cut it, cut all costs first that are not authorized by cons ution.

What costs are not authorized by the Cons ution, considering the Cons ution grants arbitrary budgetary power to Congress?

[boutons_deux]

"provisions that would decimate the private health care system"

You Lie.

Mandated health care, subsidized by taxpayers for those who can't pay all their share, with no public option, forces 10 of millions of new clients into the maw of the for-profit insurance industry. That's the very reason why the insurance cos are supporting the bill, and why their stocks skyrocketed when that provision was added and public option was killed.

A public option would save America trillions that now got to for-profit insurers. They will be smaller (that's the cost savings), but just like in all countries with national health systems, they could still exist.

[Duff McCartney]

Fine.

Want to cut it, cut all costs first that are not authorized by cons ution.

Then we can talk about the military budget.

If you want to save government expenditures, look other places first.

I am..I'd cut out Social Security too. As well as DHS...that's a big waste of money if I ever saw one. And the military could do with lots of cuts as well.

Bottom line, those who say the universal health coverage would be too expensive are the same people who want an increase in military spending. If other developed countries spend less of the GDP and less per capita on health care than the U.S. does, with far superior healthcare it really less something about the ed priorities of this country.