In 2009, Obama and the Democrats said they needed to nationalize U.S. health care because 30 million Americans were uninsured.
He brought 1/7th of the economy under government control, insurance premiums went way up, and patient choice was reduced.
Now it's 2015, and a new study shows there are now MORE uninsured Americans than there were before!
But as far as Obama and the Democrats are concerned, this isn't a failure, it's a win!
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Did anyone tell him that our Doctors are part of that 1% that he wants to tax and take away their wealth?
Only an absolute MORON would fall for this narcissist Justin Trudeau.
Respectable Liberals, like Irwin Cotler, retired from Parliament, rather than be part of his charade.
He told me so, last summer in a one on one conversation.
Google Irwin Cotler. to see what a real man is all about.
The success of the left in the US and to some degree in Canada is due in large part to the ability to organize and act. This is because the left – generally – uses talking points from the same play book – they are very homogeneous in their beliefs and dogma.
As David Smyth’s post shows such a shocking and conflicting diversity of beliefs, so goes the conservative demographic and therefore it’s pretty much impossible to get consensus or organize and act as a group to meet and then defeat the lefty, progressive agenda.
I will never accede to the idea of gun control, based on what the facts of history clearly teaches us about it. I would find it difficult to even have a conversation with someone about our mutual belief in the correctness of Capital crime and punishment, knowing they were for gun control. See?
This is why a group of people with such an insane ideology in both practical application and theory, can be as successful as the Democrats are and the left in Canada may well be, and soon.
I don’t have any kind of a solution to that conundrum…
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This list is already over two years old…
The one issue I have with the Rebel is that you want to call yourself a Conservative and then side with US Conservatives. A Canadian Conservative is not like an American Conservative at all. Republicans are bought and paid for and many are religious fanatics just like Muslim extremists. They are bigots, racists, misogynists and low information Fox viewers.
I vote Conservative in Alberta, I am pro-public funding for Health Care but pro-private delivery where possible. I am pro- death penalty but pro-gun control. I want a flat tax, I want pipelines, and I want the solution to Climate Change to stop being all about choking Alberta’s economy. Most of the greenhouse gasses come from the Cattle Industry as there are 1.5 billion cattle on the planet (look it up). Combine this with all the tanker ships from the Middle East carrying oil and burning bunker fuel to do it, and you have many more times the green house effect from all other fossil fuels. I also think that the Muslim Religion is currently the most dangerous religion on the planet and have looked extensively at the late Christopher Hitchens work and Sam Harrris’ videos.
So Evra don’t get caught up in ideology so much, a free thinker can agree and disagree and still vote against the idiot Trudeau and be for Obama.
Maybe in your seething with hate brain – but not in reality, which is the exact reason why he hasn’t been impeached.
There are plenty of reasons to impeach, convict and remove Oblowo from office for his constitutional violations.
Because there is no reason to impeach Obama. Not agreeing with something or someone politically isn’t a reason to impeach. It was obviously different with Nixon.
Well to answer your question – you have to understand first that Canada is very much a socialist country, so if you don’t know this or don’t like it, then clearly Canada isn’t for you.
Now will you explain why conservatives are like flies on shit when it comes to fear mongering, hyperbole and propaganda?
Terrified of Obama – LOL. Where do you get this shit from. When Obamacare wasn’t doing so hot at first, the American Medical Association had no problem saying that it was a mess. But since big things like this actually take time and we can’t expect any healthcare plan to be awesome overnight – they are now able to determine with facts that Obamacare has been very successful and certainly much better than how things were before.
@ vlad,
Yet, oddly, it’s the left that is accused of derangement.
Andrew,
Vlad is a straight shooter and he doesn’t hold back, someone has to keep the moonbats in line. Politeness and debate rarely works with the moonbats.
In the realm of health care there simply is no “best fit” that is based on political ideology….left or right.
Idealy socialized medicine is no fault…pre-existing condition notwithstanding…group insurance. That works fine until the insurer gets in conflict with the providers for price level.
The right wing free market is far from perfect….they do not want to even enter the no fault …pre-existing condition notwithstanding…market at all.
And where free market competition in ideological theory would work best….in America it drives the price up and out of reach.
There is an intersection in Denver Colorado that has a hospital on each corner….if it ever snowed there you could hit the other three with a snowball…from the streetside corner of any one of them.
But because they are obliged to compete with each other…each one is obliged to get phenomenally expensive medical diagnostic gear…..CAT scan…MRI scan…..neuclear medicine equipment…..four times redundant in a situation where tunnels under the street and patients moved on gurneys a short distance whould reduce the requirement 75%….and the cost of these machines is not on a per use basis….it is pro-rated to every bed….making the per diem bed rate three times what it actually needs to be.
Hospital administrative staff at typical American hospitals is four times what it is in the “bureaucracy laden” Canadian hospitals because there is such a diversity of forms, procedures etc in serving literally hundreds of insurance companies….compared to ONE standard provincial form.
And then there is how the subscriber pays for it…..The USA federal government does not have the jurisdictional authority to enact anything like what we have enacted in Canada…and besides….which do you prefer….sales tax subscription….or payroll deduction as they do in Ontario?
Veterans Affairs Canada opted to have Blue Cross administrate the lions share of it’s health care administration….certain “hot potato” issues such as opiate prescriptions….medical marijuana…and unapproved experimental drugs still get referred to VAC.
What is the saving to the taxpayer?…..Blue Cross has no pension plan for it’s workers and THAT saving is ALL that it’s about….and NO….that was not Harper’s decision.
In the United States…it cannot be denied that if you can afford it wait times are shorter…..but take it from someone who had to be a gatekeeper of taxpayer funded benefits….when the suppliers know the services are insured….they say Santa Claus has come to town and they take measures more heroic than they would take for the sake of their own bodies if they had to pay for it….the system becomes supplier driven wether it be private insurance or state underwritten….
In the United States you can get a quadruple bypass operation on twenty minutes notice….wether you actually need one or not….regardless of wether it is state or privately insured.
This is a very complex topic and both sides of it should abandon political ideology ans seek solutions that are for the greater good.
Thank you for sharing that and God Bless you.
I think there’s a little more to what you said, in that, when a person who has been indoctrinated in the insanity producing ideology of the left – and who hasn’t had the benefit of an intervention by a friend and God – they often grow out of that juvenile and immature mindset with time and they become more conservative in their thinking, with experience.
But with the Jimmies of the world, when they don’t mature and learn, they become shrill and strident, hateful and ugly in their need to tear down – rather than build or create. So it’s not so much that they’re incurable because of their upbringing – consequences not of their doing – as much as it is, they choose to act out that way – how their personality has developed, or not…
Which is why a Christian will feel pity for a wretch like Jimmy, rather than contempt…which this weak sinner is still working on.
Why are lefties such as yourself such fucking suckers for a completely delusional socialist utopia that subjugates everyone to the state?
LOL.
Absolute retards here.
Why are conservatives such fucking suckers for fear mongering and propaganda?
Peter, it’s because they have been indoctrinated (in many cases by their leftist parents, since they were toddlers; in other cases by the ‘education’ system, as impressionable young people) in a world view that is a total delusion. I can say that because I was the product of both forms of indoctrination, and it was effective. Only the prayers of Christian friends freed me from that indoctrinated world view of the left. Happily, I can report that the Christian cure is also very effective. The reason is that it restores a world view based on reality, and not on the fantasies of supposed molecules-to-man evolution, a supposed animal nature of mankind, and the supposed necessity of servitude to the state for all one’s needs. I submit that anyone who is bound by these delusions is susceptible to the communist philosophy and is likely incurable except for the intervention of God in such a life, in the person of Jesus Christ, as fortunately happened to me.
Yet, oddly, it’s the left that is accused of derangement.
Does anyone understand why lefties are so incapable of learning and seeing the world as it really is? Just askin’.