We need only look to WalMart to see that effective and affordable solutions to health care costs can be put in place for medications. They offer over 300 medications at $4 per month! This solution was brought about through thoughtful corporations doing what was in the best interest of their employees and customers, and yet being able to be profitable in the process.
Personally, I go back to the Federalist Papers and the discussions our forefathers had regarding the role of the government in the lives of those governed. It is not the place of the Federal government to dictate to anyone that they should have healthcare or not. That is not the purpose of the Federal government. The Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution clearly states that “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” What does that mean in reality? That this issue should be addressed First by the PEOPLE (i.e. be responsible for your own health needs), and Secondly, by the States. Never should it be dealt with by the Federal Government. I am amazed I said that. Now if we had thoughtful Doctors, and thoughtful insurance companies and thoughtful lawyers, you get the point.
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Please do not ever use the words WalMart and thoughtful corporations in the same paragraph. Or the same planet. We pay dearly for those low prices, including some who've paid with their lives because WalMart wouldn't offer healthcare to their employees.
Sorry.
Hopefully, card check with pass and Wal Mart will end up a thoughtful corporation through the collective bargaining process.
Gary, you totally missed the importance of this article.
God bless you Terry! Please keep the critical thinking up and continue to look at what the founders stated. In particular concentrate on James Madison and Thomas Jefferson.
In the sixties it was popular to question authority. We have come to a time again in our nation's history that we must start to question those in charge of the Federal Government as they try to plunge us deeper into a chasm that we might not be able to get out of. If you look at what Madison and Jefferson wrote you will see that the direction we are going in now is 180 degrees opposite.
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