Obama is U.S. President Elect

[CE]

I've gotten into some heated arguments at school with Obama supporters... as flowery and nice as the guy speaks, the people who voted for him foam at the mouth if you hint at something negative towards him.

I agree that people should be more tolerant to valid arguments, but that goes for all sides.

That's the future of all healthcare if it goes universally public.

I come from the future and it's not like that at all. =P

If not for Medicaid, I would be much worse off or dead- but even Medicaid doesn't cover everything. Theirs a medicine I don't think it covers that I could really use.

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[Damon Caskey]

I come from the future and it's not like that at all. =P

You come from the future in another country, which is NOTHING like the U.S. in terms of scale. This is the worlds largest GDP, 3'd (or second depending on how statistics are measured) largest land area, with almost 300 million people, and divided into states that each function as fully independent entities, some of which would easily qualify as countries in their own right.

The bureaucracy it takes to govern the U.S. is unlike any in the world, then it is further hampered with deep cultural divides and the world's most diverse ethic population. It is simply isn't feasible for our government to perform minute tasks like manage a healthcare system at the national level. The end result would be a bureaucratic moneypit requiring reform every 5-6 years, providing moderately competent care with an effective tax burden far greater then insurance rates are now. No thanks.

DC

[Kolbek]

 Yeah...I gave up being serious about politics aloooooooong time ago...