If you look at the roots of SSN compared to today, yes it is a socialist policy. We already have national health care. The poor in this country can get FREE medical treatment, while those of us who work for a living pay the freight. What is needed is a system that checks the doctors and hospitals.


>>Perhaps you would be so kind as to point the 'inconsistencies' out to me since you pointed it out?
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>>Simple - how does one reconcile support for a national health care system while denouncing the thought of the United States growing closer to socialism?
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>I have supported universal health care for months - even during the campaign. It is a concession I am willing to make. However, I do not support Obama's plan for instituting it based on what I have read so far and I also do not support it while we are in the middle of the greatest deficit in history and the greatest reliance on foreign money ever. The economic and political threat is too great until that is resolved.
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>When you take all of the policies implemented and those planned into consideration, it is a definite move towards socialism and government control of the people. I also stated that the greatest concern for that was the cap and trade.
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>Does supporting ssn and medicare make you a socialist?
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>(I am having some serious problems on the UT today. My screen keeps freezing up and there are huge pauses while I am typing before the characters are displayed. It just took about 10 secs to save my last comments. don't know what's up, but it definitely is frustrating)