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ORIGINAL: Thadius

Oh, I am sorry. I pointed you to the wrong event. I meant the Repub retreat that the President attended. Towards the end of it the President even admits that he saw the 20+ bills that the Repubs attempted to present, and that they had sent him a summary of all of those bills. He stated he would discuss them at a later time, and of course nothing came of it.

I do agree with you about there being enough blame to go around on this issue though. The Repubs could have easily attempted to get some of the easier things passed while they held the majority and the White House. However, being locked out of Pelosi and Reids' offices should not fall at their feet.

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ORIGINAL: countrychick

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ORIGINAL: cuckyman

I owned a 'D' unit (33,000gvw 6 wheeler) leased to Fed Ex Custom Critical expedited freight division of Fed Ex Corp, as an investment, and drove some trips to learn of the business...on one of these trips, we delivered a big hydralic pump to Bombardier Corp to the Canadian town of Valcourt (east of Montreal).  We arrived there some two hours ahead of scheduled delivery, and stopped at a Tim Horton's coffee shop to get a danish and some coffee while we waited for our scheduled delivery time.  I noticed in the darkness, across the street (its 04:30 EST mind you) and I saw a line of people standing in the darkness outside of a building with no lights on.....and asked the counter worker what that was all about?  She told me simply.."Oh, that's the health care clinic line"... "they open at 7am"....  I looked over there to see little ladies that looked to be in their 80's standing outside in that line with the outside air temp hoverning in the high 30's F...... I was flabergasted to say the least....... and this is Canadian healthcare?....no thanks....

not to mention that if you drive to Rochester Minn to the Mayo clinic, its not hard to notice that half of the cars in the visitor parking lots have Canadian license plates...!!!  Ever wonder why?

Ah and that would be the typical response, at least ANYONE in Canada can see a doctor when they need to. At any time I can go to the emergency room if I'm sick or hurt. Like I said it isn't ideal but is it better that the only people with access to health care are those who can afford it? I really know nothing about how the specific health care clinic your refering to works, but if these women were in urgent need of care, any hospital would take them in. Who knows the reasoning that they were standing outside waiting for that specific clinic to open. I do know from many personal experiences, that any time you go to a hospital for urgent care you are brought inside, yes you may have to wait but such is the case when people go for things as small as the common cold. If you walked in bleeding on the other hand, by all means they'd take care of you.

And yes they do.. those are the people who can AFFORD to see alternative care in the US, however if you aren't made of money you can still get health care here in Canada. Its just with the way the American system currently works if we want to pay the extra money we can to be treated.

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ORIGINAL: cuckyman

Free societies are far from perfect, but when compared to a communist society, I will take the free one every time.....

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ORIGINAL: cuckyman

 
Pray show me where in the constitution might one find the right for the government to force citizens to buy health care?  It does not take an 'activist' judge to realize a constitutional violation..... and if this one is not, then pray tell me what might be one?

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ORIGINAL: countrychick

Thank you for the heads up.. I was definitely getting the far far far right wing vibe..

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ORIGINAL: cuckyman

if you drive to Rochester Minn to the Mayo clinic, its not hard to notice that half of the cars in the visitor parking lots have Canadian license plates...!!!  Ever wonder why?

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ORIGINAL: cuckyman

Typical lib, lie, misquote and demean any thing that he and his 'enlightened' libs think to be true...typical of a Marxist scumbag.... and by the way, the 40mm Vulcans are mounted on "Spector" birds...(HC-130 Hercules gunships that fly out of Hulbert AFB, three miles from my home).... they fly around and fire every night on the Eglin AFB gunnery range as part of their training to support special ops in our deployed forces for Central Command in Tampa.... againk it would be helpful if you knew what the hell you talked about dummy..... I am just a man like millions of others, that despise liberal pukes..... I just enjoy calling them on their lying bloviations....

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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u
You seem to think this is an economic issue...it most certainly is not...it is in fact a simple question of whether we ,as a great and compassionate country ,can assure all of its citizens access to basic health care.