A conversation about Socialized Medicine

I decided to post this Facebook conversation just as another way of starting the thinking of the American people. I didn't want to edit this for words, grammar, or punctuation becasue I wanted to preserve the honesty of this conversation. I also feel that this is form of a blog post is something new that might be of use to further display arguments and counter arguments in a compilable and easily followed linear fashion. Feedback is very much welcome.

This post begins with a Status Update I posted on Facebook which was followed by the comments in the length of 12 hours or so. I will edit this post with further comments as it becomes available.

James Skyler Phillips Socialized Health Care... the obvious answer to a completely corrupt system of Insurance companies and Drug companies. Think what would have happened without socialized K-12 education or without socialized law enforcement? Those that have money would be able to get the care they needed, while those without the adequate money would be left to fend for themselves. Socialism is humanism. Socialism is justice.

Blake Bergam

I can feel that

Niles DeVore McDonald

Pleasantly surprising coming from you James.

Billy Piepenbrink

Read some essays by Karl von Clausewitz and learn a thing or two about "absolutes" before declaring such a bold statement about politics.

James Skyler Phillips

thank you guys, and yeah im much more a Socialist than you might think Niles :) and Billy, its more for dramatic effect than reality :)

Brian Levine

Sounds good but what doctor would want to be the one stuck with the people who can't pay a lot of money? And the doctors who do end up getting stuck with the less fortunate will probably not be as motivated. Not to many people were complaining about health care when the economy was doing well, maybe we should start there before we move on to other problems.

Brian Levine

I will like Obama regardless though... don't get me wrong.

Brandon Willis

Haha Levine....

Brian Levine

I sat through this argument at my internship today... haha I felt like I needed to spread so conservative love.

James Skyler Phillips

people didn't complain as much because this past 10 months have shown that home owners and businessmen can end up on the streets completely bankrupt and broke. before the middle class started loosing their homes, there were still the impoverished that suffer on a daily basis in almost every single aspect of life that we take for granted. The ... Read moreeconomy was simply a catalyst that created more conversation on the topic. As far as doctors, IMO there would be no difference in care because everyone has the same Government health care. Doctors would be paid by taxes and all would be paid equally and justly compensated for their specialties like Brain surgeons ans such. No body would have another form of insurance and everyone would get the care they need regardless of their financial state. Especially in this kind of economy we are witnessing where people are loosing, savings, cars, businesses, retirement funds, and even homes, having health care available to you should just be another right

Brian Levine

I see all your points but that is in an ideal world... every other country who has tried some form of socializing health has seen its health care and other government programs become corrupt. For example in Italy, I know from personal experience, everyone has health care. It can take up to 6 weeks for someone to see a doctor about arthritis. But it... Read more can take a person who is willing to pay the doctor on the side a matter of minutes. Same with hospital care there. Doctors give any infection a general antibiotic because its easy and it doesn't make a difference to them. Instead of staying only one day in the hospital when properly diagnosed people stay weeks because doctors simply don't care. Giving everyone health care is a great idea, but that's all it should be right no. Look whether you like it or not money motivates, if there is not that extra incentive to work hard then all of our standard of living goes down. The rich, the middle class, and the poor.

Brian Levine

I'm all for living in a perfect world, but I don't think the world is ready to be perfect.

James Skyler Phillips

I really think that there are always cases of corruption, but for the majority of the cases people are treated fairly. Besides how can America be proud when 22,000 Americans died simply from a lack of insurance. They died becasue they didn't have insurance to see a doctor.

Brian Levine

I agree that is terrible but all I'm saying is we shouldn't jump into a socialized health care system without really thinking about it. People who have money should still have the option to pay and people who don't should have a place to go. I don't even want to think about when we get older high much our taxes going to be just paying for the war, let alone healthcare.

James Skyler Phillips

yes, if people desire to have their own healthcare they should be aloud, but think about this. Is it worse for people to be forced to have Government Health Care or is it worse for people to have no Health Care? As far as Im concerned it is much worse for people to have no Health Care. Its much worse for 1/3 of the Nation to have no health care than it is for the other 2/3 to convert to Government Health Care

As you have come to understand by reading this, I am a proponent of Socialized Medicine because with the elimination of Health Insurance comapnies and the minimization of Drug Companies' profits, our Health Care system would become something that is fundable by taxes. Teh problems with our current Socialized Medicare system is that we give senior citizens the care they need, but we also pay the Insurance and Drug Companies as much as they want.

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Do You Enjoy Your Health?

I am about as far away from being happy with our dysfunctional and corrupt governing powers as I can be.

The way that You (Congress People, President, Czars) operate is far from tolerable. You are bankrupting our nation and continuing a cycle in which the interests of the people are subverted and neglected in order for you to be (however ironically) re-elected. Your pockets are lined with the money of companies that just like You seek to bleed every American dry until we are so far into debt and disparity that we willingly give our liberty over to You and let it be raped by the greed and excess of the "American Dream."

While we broach the, "American Dream," I would like to take a look at what that really is. Does anyone really know what the "American Dream" is anymore? Can you honestly say that the "American Dream" is something worth suffering for? Our perverted view of the "American Dream," is a system in which by the time we are graduated from College we are already at least $20,000 in debt. The next step is buying that nice shiny new foreign car to conform to what your new job's appearance is; the car is definitely over-priced and completely unnecessary and most importantly it lacks any lasting value to the purpose of life. After a while at your job, you are supposed to find a mate and have some kids. In that same thought you married and have a much to exuberant wedding that really means nothing half the time. After that you buy a house in the suburbs to fit in with the soccer moms that you will soon become "friends" with. Now lets say that after you have the house and you have your kids and are raising them you are at a modest $150,000 in debt to credit cards, home loans, and car loans. Lets forget about even saving for you kids college because after all you got through it all by yourself. And then 30-40 years later you die over-medicated and living in a retirement home because your children are to busy to deal with you. That my friends is what we call the "American Dream."

So there is the American dream, that is what our Government wants us to live because each and every aspect of that life contributes to the greed and depravity of our capitalist system.

In America we believe in "ME" not "WE"

We are all in this together aren't we? What else in life matters besides the love of a family and community? Can't this madness stop and we progress to a system in which every man, woman, and child is cared for in a way that breeds success and happiness to all? Is a society in which everyone contributes to the good of everyone a bad thing? Isn't Health Care and education something that everyone should be included in? Why must the greed of business men push our society towards a future in which no ones cares for their neighbors and everyone is dependent on their creditors rather than the strength and love of the family? What has maddened the American consciousness to the point that our life success is based upon the mountain of possessions that we acquire in our short lifetimes?

These questions are what needs to be asked to re-asses the, "American Dream," and the way the we accept the slaver holdings that have been placed upon us by the government but more impressively by Big Business especially the drug and Insurance companies that have entrapped the average American person in a web of debt and inaccessible help.

My parting word is that if America doesn't find a solution to it's many problems then America will fall to the hands of their own people or to the hands of our terrorist buddies and Chinese Bankers. Either find a way to help or find a way to leave this country that has become such a cesspool of greed, arrogance, and excess.

A Day In The Life

So another day passed where I went to bed at 4am and woke up at 2pm. I cleaned up, grabbed a coffee with my cousin during which we talked about World War Two quite extensively.

The main discussion was based on why Hitler failed and what America's priorities were after Pearl Harbor. On the walk back home we both agreed that having short hair gives oneself the false idea that a shower is less necessary. Obviously our assumption was not true, but i do think that dirty hair can really make someone feel much dirtier than they are; on the other side of that coin is the fact that having shorter hair makes you feel less dirty than you actually are. Therefore we both came to the conclusion that having short hair gives one more responsibility. Even though this isn't an easily verifiable fact, I feel that with enough field research and controlled testing I might find a real answer to such an important question.

Afterward I came home and ravaged two or three mangoes until they were utterly unidentifiable, ate a Lite Cesar salad (trying to loose some weight, notice the small amounts of food and the walking to Starbucks), found out that iTunes karaoke is not actually real CD-G format karaoke, and then took my dogs out on a short walk at 11pm (which is really only the midpoint of my day) and enjoyed peeing outside just as much as they did.

If this day were a Little Critters picture book it would probably be the story entitled, "The New Potty."

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Revolutionary Road

Hey fellas, so when I want to escape the 140 limit of Twitter and the monotony of replies back and forth between my tweeple (ughh I hate these twitter words), I go and read a book, go for a swim, a jog, a walk, or just sit in front of the TV and watch a movie that has eluded me for some reason. Today however (and for the last 11 days) I have been enjoying the "This Day in The USA" series on Youtube. This is a daily video series by a man named Davis Fleetwood who is seeking to create a more perfect union by educating those that will listen. Aimed at the more sarcastic and realistic bunch of us, his series is a daily work of art that expresses his opinions in a way that other people can realte to and desire. The facts and the strucutred combination of events throughout history that are presented really leave the viewer questioning why his or her own school and especially history/political class couldn't be taught in a way this intruiging and this honest. The barriers of politicial correctness are broken down and the naked truth that is so often skewed to show an alternate reality is on display for all to view. I implore (or just umbly suggest) that everyone listen to what Davis Fleetwood has to say. After that feel free to think how you will and continue on with your life.

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