John Edwards wants mandatory preventive health care

According to this report, "John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal health care proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care." Hubby says, "This is the true color of a leftist. He wants to micromanage every area of our lives. What if you DON'T go to the doctor? Is he going to send you to the gulag?"

We're back to the 'cradle to the grave' Liberal ideas. The cost of Edwards plan will be high enough to give us all heart attacks:

"It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care," he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. "If you are going to be in the system, you can't choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK." [snip]

Edwards said his mandatory health care plan would cover preventive, chronic and long-term health care. The plan would include mental health care as well as dental and vision coverage for all Americans.

"The whole idea is a continuum of care, basically from birth to death," he said.

Hubby will back me up when I say a health care plan that seems to be free to the recipient, will only lead to folks rushing to the doctor with every sneeze and upset stomach, thus sending medical expenses for tests skyrocketing. What people don't have to pay for, they abuse. Wait and see.

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Comments

[Carrie Ann]

...He noted, for example, that women would be required to have regular mammograms in an effort to find and treat "the first trace of problem."

TYPICAL CONTROL FREAK

[Erica]

not a bad idea in theory...but he is "micromanaging" a bit

[Debbie]

Shelly: Experience. Personal experience. That's all I need to express my personal opinions. Which is exactly what I have done here.

If you will read the comment by "Grouch" you should have an eye opening experience.

I think the comment by Edwards was stupid. Yes, I am against what he said and I am against government health care. Can I be any more clear?

[Grouch at Right Truth]

Let me help you out Shelley. I condemn John Edwards' statement because he is a trial lawyer and a hypocrite. I need no other reason.

I condemn the concept of government run universal health care, because it would be expensive, it would be inefficient, and it would create even more dependency and feelings of entitlement by the masses.

If you don't believe it, take a look at military medicine. I don't need statistics. I WAS A MILITARY DOCTOR. I lived it each and every day. Service men and women and their dependents receive health care free of charge (our taxes pay for it). This creates long lines in the clinics and military ER's with people complaining of trivial things, demanding this test and that test, demanding free medicine, and sometimes waiting days or even weeks for tests and procedures they really need because the doctors and nurses have to wade through and sort out all the trivial stuff. I remember one day when a navy commander, an O-5, an officer and supposedly a gentleman went into an absolute tirade aimed at our clinic senior medical officer because our pharmacy was out of Tylenol and he was actually going to have to walk across the street to the navy exchange and buy a bottle of it with his own money. It was embarrassing, but this is the nature of the beast when health care is free. The commander was ENTITLED to that free bottle of Tylenol and nobody was going to deprive him of it.

Having said that, let me say that I do not begrudge our servicemen and women anything. They risk their lives for us and they deserve health care benefits, but the military method (socialized medicine) is certainly not the way for the country as a whole.

I am hearing rumblings from countries like the UK, Canada and Australia, who have all had socialized medicine for some time about looking at new and different ways of doing things. Socialized medicine is becoming more and more burdensome on those governments, the quality of care continues to fall, and the lines get longer and longer.

Today I am a civilian ER doctor. I watch every day as people with government insurance (medicaid) flock to the ER with colds and mosquito bites, demanding immediate care, with no gratitude that they are getting health care at the expense of the tax payer.

I see unwed teenage girls birthing one illegitimate baby after another at the taxpayers' expense. Of course the babies they have will in turn give birth to yet another generation of government dependent citizens.

I don't mind helping people out who are really in need, but with that help there should come responsibility from those who receive the benefit, like taking their trivial complaints to the clinic during normal working hours instead of appearing at a busy ER in the middle of the night.

Of course, when you don't work, you sleep all day, and howl at the moon all night, I guess it would be too much of a burden to ask that you go see your doctor in the daytime clinic.

I am familiar with a small number of Katrina survivors who have settled here. For 2 years now they are sitting............sitting...................waiting........................to get on medicaid. Woe is me! What am I going to do? Why won't they GIVE me medicaid?

I believe in 2 years time, I could have found a job and become self sufficient.

Indeed, government run universal health care would only exacerbate this problem of government dependency, but then again, that is exactly what liberals like you, Shelley, want; more people dependent on the federal government. After all, government can solve all of your problems. Who needs personal responsibility when you have Uncle Sam?

I just laugh out loud when liberals, start pontificating, telling us what to think and when, wanting to spend OUR tax money to continuously fund their failed or destined to fail programs, when they absolutely know nothing about what is going on in the real world around them.

As the old saying goes, Shelley:

You don't know sh*t from shinola.

[Faultline USA]

Forced health care to forced medications to forced procedures to . . . You guessed it!

[Shelley]

Are you condemning Edwards statement or the concept of universal health care? It's hard to tell, you mix both up with so much hyperbole.

"Hubby will back me up when I say a health care plan that seems to be free to the recipient, will only lead to folks rushing to the doctor with every sneeze and upset stomach, thus sending medical expenses for tests skyrocketing. What people don't have to pay for, they abuse. Wait and see."

And you have facts and figures, statistics, to back up your statement? Or can you see the future? Do you appear regularly on television with this amazing precognitive capability?

Or would you rather have 18,000 people die every year, because less people in front of you at the McD's?

[Rosemary]

See? See nothing! It is not going to happen. Not if enough of us get it together and pick our candidates for ourselves without the media trying to pick them for us...

[Grouch at Right Truth]

I'll be happy to demonize Edwards.

He's a trial lawyer and a hypocrite. I have no use for either. I wouldn't give him a glass of water if he was on fire.

[Donald Douglas]

I'm not going to demonize Edwards, but he knows better to start calling socialized health policies.

He's been studying social policy intensely since losing in 2004, and I've read articles quoting him saying we need more personal responsibility.

Have a great holiday!

[Debbie]

You can be sure that illegal aliens would be covered too.

[Grouch at Right Truth]

Can you just imagine the bureaucratic nightmare created by keeping track of who is out there, who is supposed to go for their mandatory doctor visit today, who didn't show up, who has to go to the gulag?

It just boggles the mind.

More evidence that liberal ideas don't work and end up making the problem worse.