1. Primary education is not socialist when each individual state controls how it wants to teach. That makes it federalist. Plus it has been argued that a basic education is a fundamental right, since it is required to function as a citizen, but not a full/secondary one.
Yes and that federalistic education system is falling to pieces right now. :D If you look at countries where education is centralized and controlled and, for the most part, every child learns the same thing, oh wow they do better on test scores than places that don't. With no bottom level standard for what students can and must learned beyond rigged standardized tests [that your teachers let you cheat on using things like Graphic Calculators etc] that never accurately judge a student's ability [Why is Algebra on the test
at the beginning of the year when that is the level of math the student is begining that year? etc etc]
Why do you think Private and Homeschooled chlidren do better academically than public school chlidren? Mmm? It's really not that hard to figure out.
No, Republicans are not in favor of health care reform, as it would mean the health insurance companies from which so many of them receive their campaign contributions would be making less money. It's all about the money, Lebowski. To the person who wondered why our health care system is broken, it's for that very reason: corporate greed from the health insurance companies!
I hate to be Devil's advocate but since the topic is now swinging both ways, that same policy can be applied to the democrats and the education system because of the lucrative amount of fiances they receive from teacher's unions. Teachers don't want to be held accountable for how they teach, or have any standard like that. They like the one they're in currently even though, for students, it doesn't work in the least. :D
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I do however agree with that statement and I think it's something our neighboors don't entirely understand. In most European countries, Healthcare is about people. In the United States, it's about making progress, making money, and beating things no other country can beat. We do have the 'best' healthcare in the world. Take that governor from Canada that flew to Florida for a more noninvasive surgery to repair his heart. Take the Mayo Clinic. I'm not saying Europe doesn't have ground breaking medical discoveries, I'm just saying America has more of them. People are more motivated to do research if they're given lots of money to do it. People have gotten used to that money and they don't want it to go away. They want to keep the standard of living they've always had, even at the expense of others, because change is not something really anybody likes.
Again, poor them. We can give other incentives instead of money for research and all the nice bells and whistles for one person mean nothing for the people who die untreated because they're uninsured.
I understand that it's going to effect people and I understand people aren't all going to like change. The point of the matter is this: We have hurt and injured and sick people in the United States and we're not doing a thing about them because 'it's their own fault they don't have healthcare'
RT@GOPBoehner:Health care is NOT a right, it's a PRIVILEGE.. If you ********&listen to rap all day you don't deserve it.
This guy has been proven not to be GOPBoehner but the shocking truth of this statement really does disturb me. The real GOPLeader's twitter has listed over 6 states that are planning to sue over Healthcare. With all this stuff mucking up the system, I'm curious as to when/if any of these bill items are actually going to be implemented.
*sigh*
Again, it really floors me just how Selfish some Americans can be to say how unfair this is when, again, they're sitting with their nice and shiny health insurance and good health and they don't have to deal with any of the problems a good portion of America has to deal with. Healthcare and good healthy people make the country a better place to live in. Less sick people, less issues like with H1N1 etc etc. Less sick babies, less sick children, less sick teenagers less sick adults.
Healthier, happier, more productive.
How can America
not want this? Is earning 7 - 8 digits for yourself worth the people's suffering it causes when you have to be paid that much? :/ It's not like they're going to stop paying those doctors those lucrative sums, the doctors won't have it, so yes they're going to try to substain those salaries and still provide free healthcare and it just isn't going to work. Eventually the money will run out or the doctors will quit because of a paycheck cut they don't want to take.
Call me pessimistic but really, I doubt that until we start caring about the people in our neighborhood that anything health-care wise is really going to change at all. :/
A business is a business and this Capitalistic economy is what drives our nation. Money money money. All for me, none for you <3
