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Title: Majority of Americans support universal healthcare
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The Hill
URL Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief ... rt-federally-funded-healthcare
Published: May 16, 2016
Author: Rebecca Savransky
Post Date: 2016-05-16 12:13:13 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 11659
Comments: 60
A majority of Americans are in favor of a federally funded healthcare system that provides insurance to all Americans, according to a new Gallup poll. Some 58 percent of respondents support replacing ObamaCare with a universal healthcare system, while 37 percent oppose that plan. A majority — 51 percent — also supports simply repealing the Affordable Care Act, while 45 percent oppose the idea. Americans were divided over the idea of leaving ObamaCare as is: 49 percent oppose the idea, and 48 percent support it. The three scenarios were meant to correspond to the proposals of the three presidential candidates. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is in support of a single-payer, federally administered plan. Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump has called for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has said the law will stay in place. The poll was conducted from May 6 to 8 among 1,549 adults across the country. The margin of error is 3 percentage points.
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#21. To: Gatlin, GrandIsland (#1)
Trump supports it too. Donald Trump stands by universal health care despite attacks Donald Trump is remaining firm on a sticking point for many Republican voters — government-funded health care for all. One of his top rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, has hit Trump hard on this issue in recent weeks. Cruz’s campaign has dubbed Trump’s plan “Trumpcare” and likened it to “Hillarycare” and “Obamacare.” Last week, a super PAC supporting Cruz ran an attack ad on the subject in Iowa. But Trump isn’t backing down. article continues after advertisement “We do need health care for all people,” Trump said at a rally here this week. “What are we gonna do, let people die in the street?” Trump has said he doesn’t support Obamacare but does believe the government should pay for health insurance for all. “I wanna get rid of Obamacare. I want to get you something good,” he said at the rally. He didn’t offer specifics. Paultards. Contrast Trump's position with Dr. Ron Paul's : The current system is most definitely broken, and it must eventually be abolished if we want to regain both our health and our freedom. But Obamacare is the worst possible answer. All it does is perpetuate a flawed system by forcing everyone to become a client of insurance companies, even those who don’t want to or need to participate. Why should anyone be forced to subsidize the medical care of others? Very few individuals would personally assault their neighbors at gunpoint and steal thousands of dollars to pay for their own medical needs. How could any freedom loving person agree to delegate such criminal acts to the government by supporting a compulsory health insurance system? There is only one solution that will lead to true health and true freedom: making health care more affordable. Ron Paul believes that only true free market competition will put pressure on the providers and force them to lower their costs to remain in business. Additionally, Ron Paul wants to change the tax code to allow individual Americans to fully deduct all health care costs from their taxes. More lies... and yella Paultard propaganda. You should be banned for selling snake oil when snake oil is no longer for sale. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
I did not know anyone on welfare and I knew a few millionaires. So what?
You must really have your knickers in a wad. Yes - Trump has said that he supports universal health care. That's a fact. Ron Paul is opposed to it. Which is also true. Now - explain to me how Trump is more conservative than Paul. You should be banned for selling snake oil when snake oil is no longer for sale. You and the other assclown I pinged opened the door to posting Ron Paul's stance when you opened your gaping maw and shrieked "Paultard". Interesting way of judging a person's worth, by how much money they make, not their character. If you ask me, that's pretty doggone shallow. Wasn't it you that keeps reminding posters that Ron Paultard isn't running this year? You're such a hypocrite. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
If you ask me, that's pretty doggone shallow. I judge a persons worth by how much I have to constantly help them... or if I have to help them due to intentional, reckless and willingness to make poor decisions... like drug use, breaking laws (whether an asshole like you agrees with the law or not), obtaining debt they can't pay off or doesn't work hard enough to be self sufficient. GFY, libtard. I'm allowed to not ENABLE the sheep by paying for their poorly lived lives. It's called a constitutional FREEDOM TO KEEP THE MONEY I MAKE. You pay for it if your heart bleeds. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Where is it in the Constitution? How do you make your money?
You and the other assclown I pinged opened the door to posting Ron Paul's stance when you opened your gaping maw and shrieked "Paultard".
Like I said, you are one shallow SOB judging others by their income. Psychologically well adjusted folks pick their friends for reasons not having to do with money. Character, loyalty, honesty, willingness to help in a time of need - concepts which are alien to those like you who are lacking intellectual and mental depth. Has there ever been anything the government has run that has not been corrupted by crony capitalism(socialism) and cost on par with privately run system? Government is a filter. When you send money to it 50% is taken right off the top and put in the pockets of fat cats. As a Christian how can you justify this? If government is the answer then you are asking the wrong question!
I bet there are 10 people that you know right now who have or are currently smoking pot. I'd also bet that if you found out, you would turn them in. Friends don't do shit like that. If I do not like what they offer I can always go to the next company. With government if I do not like what they offer im pretty much screwed. Government should protect us from outsiders, provide a system to seek justice with laws that are blind but equal to all citizens. Then the government should get out of the way to let people prosper. Never forget government is the biggest mafia of all mafia's. Keep their power concise and few.
I really don't GAS what that "has been" who could get only one bill passed in all his time in Congress has to say. As for Trump, I will wait to see his detailed plans AFTER he is IN office, and then I will comment on that.
Really? Then why the clinical obsession? The fact remains - you make shit up about Ron Paul all the time. Trump has said he doesn’t support Obamacare but does believe the government should pay for health insurance for all. “I wanna get rid of Obamacare. I want to get you something good,” he said at the rally. He didn’t offer specifics. Ron Paul disagrees. You support Trump, therefore you support his plan for universal health care. I guess it's socialism only when Obama does it. Name ONE ...
Really? Then why the clinical obsession? Rubbing the truth in your ignorant face Is not a clinical obsession ... I do so, even knowing that you can't handle the truth.
Name ONE ... Already posted you asswipe I've caught you in at least two lies today. You have been doing it since the days of LP. Your most shining moment was the multiple screen names and deception you engaged in during the yukon debacle. Also - you and the rest of the Klan posted lies about Ron Paul over at LP. I've caught you in at least two lies today. Name ONE ...
Name ONE ... Already posted you asswipe Link to IT ...
Of course not. The overwhelming beneficiaries of the GI Bill were vets from WWII, Korea and Viet Nam. The draft in the U.S. ended in the mid-1970s, that's 40 years ago. The reference I posted states: "While Americans over 55 are highly educated and literate compared to their Canadian and European counterparts................... Someone 55 years old today would have been 15 years old 40 years ago and not a beneficiary of the GI Bill. Those 65+ today would have been 25+ years old 40 years ago and could have been a beneficiary of the GI Bill. In any event they are in the 55+ age group. OTOH there are relatively few people in the 16-24 age group that are beneficiaries of the GI Bill. The Bill provides financial assistance for higher education not provision for lowering the admission standards of colleges and/or lowering the quality of a public high school education. Leftist progressives are responsible for both. But if I missed your point please explain what it is. потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
The mere fact that wealth has shifted is insufficient to establish your claim. The claim is YOURS so that's what YOU need to do. All I need to do is note that you have yet to provide evidence for your claim. A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them. Name ONE ... Asked his opinion on same-sex marriage in October 2011, Paul expressed his support for marriage privatization by replying, "Biblically and historically, the government was very uninvolved in marriage. I like that. I don't know why we should register our marriage to the federal government. I think it's a sacrament." In the same interview, when asked whether he would vote for or against a state constitutional amendment like California's Proposition 8, he said, 'Well, I believe marriage is between one man and one woman. LGBT rights On the specific issue of LGBT rights, Paul stated that, “You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as individuals, and we wouldn't have this major debate going on. It would be behavior that would count, not what person belongs to what group.” Some 58 percent of respondents support replacing ObamaCare with a universal healthcare system, while 37 percent oppose that plan. A majority of people in the United States are adversely affected by the current health care regulations, and see Universal Healthcare as a way out of such crushing price jumps. Little do they know (those uninformed and unwashed masses) that the past four decades (or more) of health care reform lay may well be the reason for the price increases and lack of available care. The citizens are not ready for that which the powerful are ready to unleash upon them.
Wikipedia, huh? That’s the place where ANYONE can EDIT ALL entries, where they can easily undermine facts through malice or ignorance … uh, is that correct? You will not believe Snopes, but you accept Wikipedia as the gospel, right? You are one complex and misguided individual. Geeze …
You fucking weasel - you wouldn't know a fact if it bit you on the ass. Ron Paul bases his positions on gay marriage on the Constitution. In 2004, Ron Paul spoke in support of the Defense of Marriage Act, passed in 1996. This act allows a state to decline to recognize gay marriage or same-sex marriages performed in other states or countries, although a state will usually recognize legal marriages performed outside of its own jurisdiction. The Defense of Marriage Act also prohibits the U.S. government from recognizing same-sex marriages, even if a state recognizes the marriage. Paul co-sponsored the Marriage Protection Act, which would have barred federal judges from hearing cases pertaining to the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act. In 2004 and 2006, Paul voted against amending the US Constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman. though he does not support allowing gay and lesbian couples to wed. He saw the amendment as a usurpation of the states’ authority. “Mr. Speaker, while I oppose federal efforts to redefine marriage as something other than a union between one man and one woman, I do not believe a constitutional amendment is either a necessary or proper way to defend marriage,” he said in 2006. Paul said he supports the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a law that bars federal recognition of same-sex marriages and allows the states to do the same. “If I were in Congress in 1996, I would have voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which used Congress’ constitutional authority to define what official state documents other states have to recognize under the Full Faith and Credit Clause, to ensure that no state would be forced to recognize a same-sex marriage license issued in another state,” he said in 2006. Paul’s statement on the amendment and DOMA was placed in the Congressional Record in 2006 and the same statement had been placed there in 2004. Paul’s opposition to queer community goals dates to at least 1980, when he was among a group of Washington legislators introducing anti-gay legislation. Paul’s bill, the Family Protection Act, barred the federal government from funding “any organization which presents male or female homosexuality as an acceptable alternative life style or which suggests that it can be an acceptable life style.” ******* Meanwhile - Trump tells Catlin Jenner (and presumably ALL transgenders) that they are free to use ANY bathroom they like in any of his buildings. And - THAT is the candidate that YOU support. Nope! While you may try to say that Ron Paul opposes same-sex marriage, however the truth is much more complex and somewhat confusing. His view on same-sex marriage is a states rights issue and he believes homosexuals should be allowed to marry in states that legalize the practice. In fact, he says: “in a free society…all voluntary and consensual agreements would be recognized. There should essentially be no limits to the voluntary definition of marriage.” Now try to say that ain’t so … Hypocrites, both you and he.
Then you help me. Answer the questions and explain your answers. Does Ron Paul want to legalize ALL drugs including cocaine and heroin … is that a good or a bad thing?
If you feel the constitution protects people's rights to own 6 metric tons of heroine, then you should agree my money is my personal property.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
No, I help many, like my family and friends. When you EXPECT ME to pay who you feel needs help in a time of need is LIBTARDED SOCIALIST. F' off, you pay for them. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
I'd also bet that if you found out, you would turn them in. Friends don't do shit like that. I've told you more than once that I don't give two shit about pot... but then again you have a selective Memory. I've made more little lazy pot head dip shits dump their little baggies of green leafy substance on the ground than you've got laid. I was plenty fair. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Yea he did. Ron Paul was once again speaking out of both sides of his ass. He is alleged to be a BIG proponent of states rights ... yet he denied states the right of refusal. Typical Paultard ... being two-faced.
If Ron Paul defended the Defense of Marriage Act, as he did … then why did he oppose the Federal Marriage Amendment? He doesn’t define marriage as the union of one man and one woman and he is in favor of marriage rights to same-sex couples? Obviously not. Ergo, he is for same-sex marriage. That is the only logical deduction that can come form his action. Action always speaks louder than words … Est-ce bien exact?
Why did GOProud, the gay conservative group, supporte Ron Paul? I know ... do you?
I've already posted several times why I believe that prohibtion of drugs is the wrong way to deal with the issue. For one thing, the drug war has claimed thousands of innocent victims including those who have never even used any drugs. The drug war has been an excuse to ramp up the police state, (which you are so enamored with) providing cities and towns across the country with armored vehicles and weaponry that is more suitable for a battlefield. Prohibition does not reduce the use or abuse of drugs. Over a trillion dollars has been spent on your glorious war on drugs, and it has been proven to be an epic failure. The very definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. History has shown that prohibition (of any kind) reduces neither use nor abuse.In 1925, H. L. Mencken wrote an impassioned plea: Prohibition has not only failed in its promises but actually created additional serious and disturbing social problems throughout society. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic but more. There is not less crime, but more. ... The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished." Those words could very well have been written today, since the parallells between prohibition of alcohol and the current prohibitions on drugs are undeniable. Perhaps the best reason is that the governemnt does not own you, does not own your body. People who wish to consume drugs them have the same liberty to make their own decisions and determine their own well-being as those who consume alcohol, or anything else. The United States is supposedly a free country. Decisions that affect a person should be left up to the individual, not government. It was a two part question, answer the first part ... please. Does Ron Paul want to legalize ALL drugs including cocaine and HEROIN?
I suggest you call him and ask. You are still trying to deflect the discussion from this: Donald Trump stands by universal health care despite attacks Donald Trump is remaining firm on a sticking point for many Republican voters — government-funded health care for all. Trump has said he doesn’t support Obamacare but does believe the government should pay for health insurance for all. People reliant on VA care, and those over 65 with Medicare have some idea of what U.S. government administered health care is like. The Military Health Care system is protected by the Feres Doctrine wherein SCOTUS held the military member could not sue for malpractice, and if the malpractice kills him, his family cannot sue on his behalf. Some governments run a universal health care system that works. The U.S. government is so corrupt that I just do not see it working. Private health insurance does not work as the medical and insurance industries drive up the price in their fight for profit.
As a christian I don't have to justify this because this is not a scriptural system. God never asked you to give more than 10% but implicit in that 10% is the provision of care
Some 58 percent of Americans support universal healthcare,
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#22. To: Deckard (#21)
#23. To: GrandIsland (#20)
Select 100 RANDOM Apole friends you had 5 years ago ... tell me how many of them went from middle class to living on welfare... and if your fear mongering by pro socialist dip shits is true, for every 100 middle class people you know, you must know 1 millionaire that has more money than all 99 of your other friends.
#24. To: GrandIsland (#22)
More lies... and yella Paultard propaganda.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#25. To: GrandIsland, A Pole (#23)
you must know 1 millionaire that has more money than all 99 of your other friends.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#26. To: Deckard (#24)
Ron Paul is opposed to it. Which is also true.
#27. To: Deckard (#25)
(Edited)
Interesting way of judging a person's worth, by how much money they make, not their character.
#28. To: GrandIsland (#27)
It's called a constitutional FREEDOM TO KEEP THE MONEY I MAKE.
#29. To: GrandIsland (#26)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#30. To: GrandIsland (#27)
I judge a persons worth by how much I have to constantly help them...
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#31. To: paraclete (#13)
You are right, but it an entirely wrong concept to say that that which is paid by the taxpayer is free.
#32. To: GrandIsland (#27)
like drug use
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#33. To: paraclete (#13)
Let me ask you, would you refuse service if it was paid for by a benefactor, by an employer, why then would you refuse service paid for by a government on your behalf? Is it becuase you think that you will pay more in taxes than the value you extract, 18 Trillion dollars in debt gives the lie to this argument
#34. To: Deckard, GrandIsland (#21)
#35. To: Gatlin (#34)
I really don't GAS
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#36. To: Deckard (#35)
The fact remains - you make shit up about Ron Paul all the time.
#37. To: Deckard (#35)
I really don't GAS
#38. To: Gatlin (#36)
The fact remains - you make shit up about Ron Paul all the time.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#39. To: Gatlin (#37)
Rubbing the truth in your ignorant face
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#40. To: Deckard (#39)
Rubbing the truth in your ignorant face
#41. To: Deckard (#38)
The fact remains - you make shit up about Ron Paul all the time.
#42. To: A Pole (#16)
Did GI Bill "lower the education attainment?
#43. To: A Pole (#12)
look at the shift in distribution of wealth over the last decades
you need to analyze and interpret them
#44. To: Gatlin (#40)
I've caught you in at least two lies today.
Yes, it is extremely amusing for me to consider Hillary and Ron are both comfortable with same-sex marriage and both agree that same-sex partners should receive benefits
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#45. To: Willie Green (#0)
A majority of Americans are in favor of a federally funded healthcare system that provides insurance to all Americans, according to a new Gallup poll.
#46. To: Deckard (#44)
#47. To: Gatlin (#46)
(Edited)
That’s the place where ANYONE can EDIT ALL entries, where they can easily undermine facts through malice or ignorance … uh, is that correct?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#48. To: Deckard (#44)
I've caught you in at least two lies today.
#49. To: Deckard (#47)
- you wouldn't know a fact if it bit you on the ass.
Does Ron Paul want to legalize prostitution at the federal lever … is that a good or a bad thing?
#50. To: A Pole (#28)
#51. To: Deckard (#30)
Character, loyalty, honesty, willingness to help in a time of need - concepts which are alien to
#52. To: Deckard (#32)
bet there are 10 people that you know right now who have or are currently smoking pot.
#53. To: Deckard (#47)
Ron Paul spoke in support of the Defense of Marriage Act ...
The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) (Pub.L. 104–199, 110 Stat. 2419, enacted September 21, 1996, 1 U.S.C. § 7 and 28 U.S.C. § 1738C) is a United States federal law that, prior to being ruled unconstitutional, defined marriage for federal purposes as the union of one man and one woman, and allowed states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages granted under the laws of other states.
#54. To: Deckard (#53)
The Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) (also referred to by proponents as the Marriage Protection Amendment) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution which would define marriage in the United States as a union of one man and one woman. The FMA would also prevent judicial extension of marriage rights to same-sex or other unmarried heterosexual couples.
#55. To: Deckard (#54)
#56. To: Gatlin (#49)
Does Ron Paul want to legalize ALL drugs including cocaine and heroin … is that a good or a bad thing?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#57. To: Deckard (#56)
#58. To: Gatlin (#57)
Does Ron Paul want to legalize ALL drugs including cocaine and HEROIN?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#59. To: SOSO, Willie Green (#3)
I don't think 58% of Americans know what universal healthcare is. However IMO they will change their mind if they have to pay for it.
#60. To: Justified (#31)
When you send money to it 50% is taken right off the top and put in the pockets of fat cats. As a Christian how can you justify this?
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