The previous way healthcare worked was fine. The middle to upper class could afford it, and the poor people couldn't. If you can't afford it, tough luck.
Health care and insurance is a private industry. Corruption, money-hoarding and utter lack of empathy on the part of those companies is nothing new in any industry, so I don't see what the fuss is about. In addition to Obama mollycoddling the lower class (although I'm sure you liberals love that, what with your silly little obsession with the proletariat), he has also extended the length of time in which welfare is allowed, and is practically handing out unemployment through the courts, who are either unable or unwilling to stop it.
Now we're (apparently) giving healthcare to illegal immigrants, which I'm not going to complain about due to the fact that these immigrants are often easy to manipulate and work for dirt cheap, which offsets the cost, but it's the principle of the thing. We're headed for collapse, and it's because people like Squirre1 exist (HURR DURR I VOTE 4 HIM CUZ HIS BLACK AND UNDERSTND MAI PROBLMS).
Last edited by oyster; Mar 24, 2010 at 01:25 AM.