>>"If you think about it UPS and FedEx are doing just fine...it's the post office that's always having problems."
>>http://www.breitbart.tv/obama-its-the-post-office-thats-always-having-problems/
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>>I couldn't have said it better myself...wait...I believe I've made this exact point several times before.
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>>Anyhow, now that He's caught up to my page I assume He'll stop all this talk of a government plan.
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>>Holding my breath...
> I agree. I am dumbfounded at the ludicrous analogy. Neither UPS nor FedEx offer letter delivery, and the only reason the Post Office is still operating is because we subsidize it.
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>He makes the opponents point FOR THEM. Add to that things like Amtrack, VA hospitals, base PX's, farm/dairy subsidies....etc and multiply that stupidity times the ignorance factor of those who will believe "you will not stand in lines", "I do not believe in single-payer systems" and"I have the support of AARP" and I think you get 52%.
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>Wake up voters. As Marcia said - contact your elected officials now.

Active duty military hospitals (for the soldier and their families) offer excellent care. I won't go into VA hospitals because I had a terrible experience with one locally where my father-in-law died not from the cancer he had, but from an infection he received in the hospital. However,in active duty military hospitals and clinics there is almost always a waiting list for family members unless it is emergency care and even then the waiting time in the ER is much longer than in the local hospital. As a family member, I've waited 5 hours or more to see a doctor in a clinic and months for surgery that wasn't life threatening. Soldiers always receive preferencial treatment (first in line as it should be). In many places in the U.S. there is a waiting list for Medicare as well (I know this because my mom was on one). One of the big issues with medicare is there are not many doctors in some areas in the country who will accept Medicare or Medicaid patients simply because of the paperwork and red tape involved. Will the new government plan force doctors to accept patients who use it or will that be an option for doctors as well? Will folks be in waiting lists simply to be accepted into a practice with a doctor who accepts that plan? Will the paperwork and red tape involved be as bad (or worse) than Medicaid or Medicare?

I read the plan and there are some areas I am worried about. However, I do feel that universal healthcare is needed in this country. Before we implement one here though, I think it is absolutely necessary that the existing systems (Medicare and Medicaid) be fixed to demonstrate that it can be done RIGHT. The issue is not so much universal healthcare as it is our government's track record for government run plans. I'm still for bringing in the Swedes or the experts in Netherlands to run it!