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Originally posted by whodeyI advocate a system something along the lines of the one in Germany or Japan.
Yes or no. Do you advocate a single payer system for health care?
Originally posted by FMFExcept on a much bigger scale.
I advocate a system something along the lines of the one in Germany or Japan.
Originally posted by whodeyIn what respect have governments in Germany and Japan "infiltrated" people's lives due to the implementation of their respective health care systems?
Except on a much bigger scale.
My whole point here is to say that enabling a government to create such a massive and intimate and expensive system as health care in the US is to create a massive centralized government. To then expect that government to not then use that power and wealth to infiltrate every other aspect of our lives, and those abroad, is n ...[text shortened]... ve. Once you create the collective Frankenstien, don't bother protesting when it turns on you.
Originally posted by KazetNagorraPlease, the GDP of the US dwarfs both Germany and Japan. In fact, if you include all of the EU they are about the same as the US. You are comparing apples and oranges here. In addition to that, no country prints money like the US. They are off the hook.
In what respect have governments in Germany and Japan "infiltrated" people's lives due to the implementation of their respective health care systems?
Originally posted by whodeyI find it interesting that Germany and Japan were chosen. After all, they threw the entire world into a world war not too long ago. In addition, Hitler implemented a Nanny state where everyone got free medical and free everything else. The German people had a higher standard of living with Hitlers handouts than everyone else in Europe. It was the price he had to pay in order for the people of Germany to look the other way as he carried out mass genocide and military aggression.
Originally posted by FMFI am merely pointing to the proven power of collectivism. It has the power to make genocide socially acceptable.
[b]I find it interesting that Germany and Japan were chosen. After all, they threw the entire world into a world war not too long ago. In addition, Hitler implemented a Nanny state where everyone got free medical and free everything else. The German people had a higher standard of living with Hitlers handouts than everyone else in Europe. It was the price h ...[text shortened]... ates that it is going to do a repeat of its mid-20thC "mass genocide and military aggression"?
Originally posted by whodeyBut aren't we discussing the current German health system? You're saying it has "the power to make genocide socially acceptable"... and, so, it's a bad health system? Is that what you mean?
I am merely pointing to the proven power of collectivism. It has the power to make genocide socially acceptable.
Originally posted by whodeyHow do you know it hasn't been used yet? They don't have to give word to anyone on grounds of National Security and a person just disappears.
The passage of the NDAA. The governemnt now has the right to detain me without due process, even though it has not been used as of yet.
Originally posted by joe beyserTrue. That way it can never be challenged by SCOTUS.
How do you know it hasn't been used yet? They don't have to give word to anyone on grounds of National Security and a person just disappears.