America wasn’t like this 40 years ago! Go to YouTube and look up some old "Soul Train" videos… everyone is slim! That’s how they could dance!

What on earth have they done to us? What have they done to our food?

And why is it impossible to lose body fat (and keep it off) once you’ve gained it?

I know you can lose a little, but it’s a constant struggle, and it doesn’t seem possible to really lose it – i.e., get down to "washboard abs" and single-digit body fat percentage…. is it?

THIS is why America is going bankrupt. Everyone is fat and sick, so naturally our health care costs are exploding, and people can’t be as productive as they were back when they were healthy (like in the 1970s…)

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When Ronald Reagan shuffled the nation by encouraging us to embrace FreeEnterprise we all "felt good" and it worked. But it grew into a corporate capitalism since then, so hated by Karl Marx and now look what it has become: BigBanks need a bailout.They get it at a low %, while our credit card interest rates remain high. Is that how capitalism is supposed to work?
The Washington-based Center for Economic and Policy Research calculated that the below-market rates offered by the Federal Reserve to JPMorgan Chase — and 17 other large banks — accounted for 41 percent of the profits at Dimon’s banks.

They accounted for 47 percent of the profit at Bank of America, the group said.

A report by the CEPR compared the rates the Fed charged large banks to the rates it charged smaller banks.

The difference amounted to 0 for each of the 120 million families in the country — or roughly billion.

"Most people, if you asked them what do you want to do with 0, I doubt the answer would be, ‘Why don’t we subsidize the large banks?’" said Dean Baker, the group’s co-director. "A lot of things we think are important cost much less — billion annually would go a long way to subsidizing health care [costs for American families]."

Financial experts blasted the subsidy as corporate welfare.

"It rewards their irresponsible behavior in the past and encourages them to do the same thing again in the future," said Simon Johnson, a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
If a company fails it goes bankrupt. But if a corporation fails it gets a bailout. What are the benefits to taxpayers if any?
When corporations form by buying up large amounts of small companies they should be made clear that if ever in the future they fail, they ought to sell off the smaller entities before begging for bailouts. And guess what, this is EXACTLY what happening now (in Europe) after the public’s outrage.

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Why does it seem like every illegal immigrant I see is getting their health care costs covered by our government and taxpayers (Medicaid), yet the country’s citizens are going bankrupt because they can’t afford to pay their medical bills, and then 40 million of them are uninsured?

Ok to shorten the question, why is it so easy for illegal immigrants to get Medicaid, but there are tons of requirements Americans have to meet before they can get it?
I work in a pharmacy, I see it every day.

Source: Myself.
How many illegal immigrants do you know? Because my half-brother’s dad is one and I know for a fact that he doesn’t pay income taxes, yet he gets free health care and free legal representation. Is that fair? No.

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1. All Americans would have health insurance. This is the right thing to do because it reflects and promotes core values and notions of citizenship: equality, compassion, and social solidarity. Sickness doesn’t discriminate. Neither should health care.

2. Health would improve. On almost every critical measure (life expectancy, infant mortality, etc.), Canada rates higher than the U.S., and we’re among the best in the world.

3. It would cost less. Canada spends 9.8% of GDP on health care, while the U.S. spends more than 15%. A single-payer system is the less expensive way to go.

4. Patients would have more choice. In Canada, patients can choose whatever doctor, specialist, and hospital they want. Treatment decisions are left to patients and their doctors. No insurance companies meddle in our choices.

5. Quality of service would improve. In Canada, health providers never have to choose between their wealth and a patient’s health. Our system forbids that choice. The vast majority of Canadians are highly satisfied with the quality of care they receive. In Canada, patients rarely sue physicians.

6. It would reduce the bureaucracy. Patients in Canada show their health card and get care. Health providers bill the government directly and get paid. It’s that simple.

7. Fewer Americans would go bankrupt because of health-care costs. This is a major problem for many U.S. families. It rarely happens in Canada.

8. It would benefit business. Companies in Canada have a competitive advantage because they don’t have to provide basic health-care coverage for their workers.

9. It would diminish labor strife. Health care is incidental in labor negotiations in Canada. It’s a large and growing pitfall in contract negotiations in the U.S.
Your false = head in sand
yawn= I have no fricking idea how to answer
From the Frasier Institute (a couple of years old but not much has changed)

Numbers of people waiting: The numbers of people waiting for each procedure and
therefore each specialty were also calculated.
Throughout Canada, the total number of people waiting
for treatment was 166,150 in 2005, a reduction of
22 percent between 1998 and 2003. The number of
people waiting rose in Saskatchewan, Newfoundland,
and Prince Edward Island. As a percentage of the population,
0.54 percent of Canadians were waiting for
treatment in 2005, which varied from a low of 0.36 percent
in Ontario to a high of 2.23 percent in Saskatchewan
O`Reilly wouldn`t be trying to be a bit biased now would he?
Gitmo…your stats are false, no doubt in my mind.

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I’ve always known republicans to be hypocrites in the fact that they’re allowed to do things when others aren’t, because they’re always in the right even when they’re wrong. But when their own ideology comes back and smacks them in the face, forcing them to lose their homes over health care costs that they can’t afford, and they find their insurance is just one big scam, is it enough to make them smell the corruption, or do they go off and blame Liberals, mistaking their own party’s policies for that of "the enemy?" I live in Canada so I’m not faced with that situation, but my God, I sure hope that when rednecks in red states suffer, which I’m all too happy to see, they at least realize how they go to that point.

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/12/president-obama-federal-government-will-go-bankrupt-if-health-care-costs-are-not-reigned-in.html
First off the Dems, progressives or lets just call them what they are the socialist start taxing us next year and do not provide anything for 3 of 4 years. So they can say the bill reduces the deficit.
How stupid do they think people are.
Does anyone think that at the end 15 or 20 years this bill will be budget neural.
Then there is the 500 Billion in cuts to Medicare waste. Really if they could cut that much why have they waited to do it.
Is Obama and the Dems, sorry socialists in congress just liars or stupid?

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How come cons only offer obstruction and no alternative? How are we going to be able to handle over 50 million uninsured Americans? Health care costs that are sky rocketing, bankruptcies due to health care costs through the roof, emergency rooms with 12 hour plus waits for urgent problems…..

Or do cons think there is no problem and feel like sticking their head in the sand and protecting the rich and corporations is what is best for America?
Notice no solutions are being offered…come on in your own words people give me the fixes.

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***Do not answer this question if you don’t have an ALTERNATIVE to universal healthcare********

Since Republicans are so against universal health care, what would you propose to fix our health care system. Please do not argue that our health care system is adequate because it is obvious that the costs are too high and too many people are uninsured. Furthermore, do not argue that only people who are "bums" don’t have healthcare because many hard-working people can’t afford it.

The article cited below discusses a recent study that concluded that 60% of bankruptcies were filed due to excessive medical bills. In fact, many of these same people had health care, which was inadequate for their bills. Do Republicans have any proposals in how to lower health care costs?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090604/us_nm/us_healthcare_bankruptcy

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