A Handy Guide
A Helpful Summary of Right Wing Arguments Against Health Care Reform
* Although efforts have been made to reform health care since 1912, we should not be too hasty in enacting change.
* The Federal Government has no business interfering in people's health care decisions. Unless a woman is trying to terminate a pregnancy or unless the patient's last name is Schiavo.
* The government is incabable of running anything efficiently and if allowed to offer a health care option, will run it so efficiently it will put private insurers out of business.
* Some people just don't deserve health care.
* We're a Christian nation and we don't believe in helping the least among us.
* The current system with 47 million uninsured, a million medical bankruptcies annually, and 18,000 deaths annually due to lack of insurance, is working just fine. In fact, we have the best health care system in the world!
* Even though many older couples are forced to divorce in order to avoid catastrophic financial losses due to medical expenses, it's the homosexuals who are destroying families.
* A conversation with your doctor about end of life issues is an opportunity for your doctor to convince you to kill yourself.
* We can afford to spend more on our military than all other nations combined, but we can't afford universal health care.
* Single payer government run health care is good enough for our men and women in uniform, but to offer the same to the general public would be socialism.
* Pooling our resources to provide roads, schools, clean water, military, police, and fire protection for each other is not socialism. Pooling our resources to offer each other health care is socialism.
* Socialism is bad. Very bad. Bad.
* Health care is an issue best handled by individual states. Like slavery.
* We can afford to subsidize Israel, Iraq, and Afghanistan, all of whom have universal health care, but we can't afford it for ourselves.
* Physicist Stephen Hawking would have been allowed to die under the British health care system. Oh, he's British? And alive? Never mind.
* It's much better to have millions of American citizens go bankrupt or die due to a lack of adequate health insurance than to take the chance that even one illegal immigrant might somehow, somewhere, benefit from government sponsored health care.
* We already have universal health care; it's called the emergency room. Uninsured people can go there for all their health needs, and it'll cost the taxpayers only a few thousand dollars per visit.
* Socialism is bad. Very, very bad. Boooo!
* The Obama health care initiative is part of a liberal communist Nazi socialist Islamofascist gay atheist zombie transsexual cannibal sociopath evolutionist agenda to take away your freedom.
*from the 09-08-09 broadcast of The Stephanie Miller Show, sent in by listener Sean.
* Although efforts have been made to reform health care since 1912, we should not be too hasty in enacting change.
* The Federal Government has no business interfering in people's health care decisions. Unless a woman is trying to terminate a pregnancy or unless the patient's last name is Schiavo.
* The government is incabable of running anything efficiently and if allowed to offer a health care option, will run it so efficiently it will put private insurers out of business.
* Some people just don't deserve health care.
* We're a Christian nation and we don't believe in helping the least among us.
* The current system with 47 million uninsured, a million medical bankruptcies annually, and 18,000 deaths annually due to lack of insurance, is working just fine. In fact, we have the best health care system in the world!
* Even though many older couples are forced to divorce in order to avoid catastrophic financial losses due to medical expenses, it's the homosexuals who are destroying families.
* A conversation with your doctor about end of life issues is an opportunity for your doctor to convince you to kill yourself.
* We can afford to spend more on our military than all other nations combined, but we can't afford universal health care.
* Single payer government run health care is good enough for our men and women in uniform, but to offer the same to the general public would be socialism.
* Pooling our resources to provide roads, schools, clean water, military, police, and fire protection for each other is not socialism. Pooling our resources to offer each other health care is socialism.
* Socialism is bad. Very bad. Bad.
* Health care is an issue best handled by individual states. Like slavery.
* We can afford to subsidize Israel, Iraq, and Afghanistan, all of whom have universal health care, but we can't afford it for ourselves.
* Physicist Stephen Hawking would have been allowed to die under the British health care system. Oh, he's British? And alive? Never mind.
* It's much better to have millions of American citizens go bankrupt or die due to a lack of adequate health insurance than to take the chance that even one illegal immigrant might somehow, somewhere, benefit from government sponsored health care.
* We already have universal health care; it's called the emergency room. Uninsured people can go there for all their health needs, and it'll cost the taxpayers only a few thousand dollars per visit.
* Socialism is bad. Very, very bad. Boooo!
* The Obama health care initiative is part of a liberal communist Nazi socialist Islamofascist gay atheist zombie transsexual cannibal sociopath evolutionist agenda to take away your freedom.
*from the 09-08-09 broadcast of The Stephanie Miller Show, sent in by listener Sean.