6 Responses to “A Political Ad that will Never Make It to Air”

1.   Scot Hacker Says:
   April 9th, 2007 at 9:40 am

   Maybe it’ll never make it to air because it makes no point (or at least none that I can discern)?

2.   Nick Marinelli Says:
   April 9th, 2007 at 2:39 pm

   I believe the point is that a Hillary presidency is a very, very scary thing to behold.

3.   Scot Hacker Says:
   April 9th, 2007 at 10:14 pm

   Nick - Out of curiosity, why do you say that? What’s not to like about Hillary?

4.   Nick Marinelli Says:
   April 10th, 2007 at 6:45 am

   Personally, I believe that if Hillary gets elected she will follow through on her promise to create a tax-payer funded health care plan such as the plans in Europe and Canada. Once that happens, any chance of people getting the routine health care they need in a timely fashion is gone. You think waiting in a doctor’s office for a few hours is a bad thing? Wait until you have to wait for months just to get an appointment for something a simple as an x-ray or MRI.

   The fact is, in these types of systems people die every day waiting for needed medical care that they could have received almost immediately under our present system. There is no logical or sound reason to create a single-payer health care system in this country, yet she is going to do it. For me, this represents all of the bad ideas and lack of intelligence which the Democrat Party has come to represent.

5.   Scot Hacker Says:
   April 10th, 2007 at 9:42 am

   Nationalized Health care? That’s your main gripe with Clinton? Of all the problems American faces, I wouldn’t put that at the top of the list, but since you mention it, any president is going to have to deal with the current seriously broken and unfair system. Whether dealing with it means going to nationalized care or some other solution remains to be seen, but we don’t have to look any further than our own back yard to see examples of how having the govt involved in health care can produce some of the best care available anywhere.

   I think we have enough evidence at this point that leaving something as important as health care to the free market isn’t working.

   But health care aside, Clinton seems like a straight shooter to me - forthright and strong and likable. She wouldn’t be my top pick, but I’m always perplexed when people react to her as if she’s the devil, when she’s actually a pretty typical centrist.

6.   Nick Marinelli Says:
   April 10th, 2007 at 10:45 am

   Since I am a dialysis patient, I’m puzzled as to why you find it strange that nationalized health care is a big concern for me. The absolute last thing I want is for some government hack to have a say over what medical care I can have.

   As for the article you linked, while the standard of care in the VA hospitals is better than average, even this article makes a distinction regarding access to that care. To quote, “Sure, it’s not hard to find vets who complain about difficulties in establishing eligibility. Many are outraged that the Bush administration has decided to deny previously promised health-care benefits to veterans who don’t have service-related illnesses or who can’t meet a strict means test. Yet these grievances are about access to the system, not about the quality of care received by those who get in.” As always, it doesn’t matter how good the care is if you can’t access it when you need it.

   As for whether or not the free-market health care system is working or not, you have only to look at the number of people who come to the US for medical treatment from around the world to see that we already have the best available health care anywhere. Surely, if the British system or the Canadian system had the same care available when these patients need it they would get their care in their home country where it would be cost-free. Instead, they come to the US because the care is available to them now, when they need it, not six months from now.

   As for Clinton herself, I don’t think she is the devil. I don’t think she’s a centrist, either. I think she is like a chameleon; what she believes today depends on what the polls said this morning. The fact that she wants to implement a health care system which has already been rejected by the vast majority of Americans during her husband’s administration tells you that she is a committed socialist when it comes to these types of issues. All you have to do is read this quote from a speech she gave in San Francisco on June 28, 2004: Many of you are well enough off that…the tax cuts may have helped you. We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

   Sounds like communism to me.