Bushbot - No to Universal Healthcare - Gets His from Welfare!

[RamboLiberal]

Stumbled across this local story - 400 people protesting the war and for healthcare - a dozen or so Bushbots including this hypocrite.

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Janzer, 24, of the North Side, said Neel's opposition to the war was hypocritical and responded to Neel's cowardice charge by saying that he tried to enlist, even lied to get into the service, but they wouldn't take him because of his asthmatic condition.

"I don't believe that health care has anything to do with warfare," said Janzer, referring to the rally's "Healthcare Not Warfare" theme.

Janzer, who is a student at Duffs Business Institute, also doesn't believe that government should provide universal health care coverage, even though his health coverage is provided by the government through welfare.

"I believe that medical coverage should be lower costing but not free,'' Janzer said. "The former Soviet Union tried that and it didn't work." Medical coverage through welfare should be a stepping stone but people shouldn't live off of it and I don't think everyone should have it. Ideally, everyone should pay for their own."

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04229/362473.stm

[Cleita]

1. Things like this really piss me off.

For one thing universal health care is not free. Everyone pays something into it unless they are a child or are too sick or old to. Then it's free, but chances are that person has been paying into it all along before falling ill or growing old.

I know a woman, a nurse, whose salary is paid for by mostly Medicare payments. Her husband is a civil employee whom, you guessed it, is paid by taxpayers and his healthcare is paid for by taxpayers, yet they are both staunch Bush supporting Republicans.

I tell you. I don't get it.

[depakid]

2. Duff's Business Institute?

is this place for real or is this a Simpson's take off?

What are they teaching that poor kid? Obviously, he's not very, but since the government is probably susidizing his education (in addition to his healthcare) you'd hope he'd at least get something of a clue as to how budgeting and finance works.

[maxsolomon]

3. universal health care did not collapse the soviet union

or canada would have collapsed by now.

put down the pipe, buddy!