The message of the GOP candidates: Beware of socialized medicine.
All nine candidates said they would have voted/or did vote against legislation in Congress this week that will expand SCHIP (a federal children's health program) much larger than a White House recommendation. Republican Senator Chuck Grassely of Iowa has been fighting for an increase in the program.
Governors Thompson and Huckabee agreed that the health care system needs to focus on wellness and prevention, not disease. Huckabee said that the health care problem needs to be fixed totally. He compared the health care system to a boat taking on water and instead of plugging the hole, people look for a larger bucket to remove water.
Congressman Tancredo said that the federal government is not obligated in way to play a role in health care.
Governor Romney touted what was done in his state to require all to have health insurance. He said the system is not perfect, but it certainly works.
The overridding message of the candidates was to use market forces to lower costs, most all spoke of the perils of socializing medicine.
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I am blogging to respond to people who are perturbed by the fact that there is a higher percentage of liberals in universities than conservatives. If"concervatives" weren't so keen on cutting educational and social programs to pay for special government contracts to make rich people richer and to help make up for all the corporate welfare and tax dodging by the rich who can afford tax lawyers who know all the loopholes. If "conservatives" had their way we will never have healthcare for all, public education (even gradeschool) public law enforcement, public fire protection and rescue, public roads and infrastructures, etc. If they have their way, in the future those all would be considered socialized programs and only those that could afford to pay for services like the above would have them available to them. There was a time that this was true in most societies and if we keep letting "conservatives" get away with this sneeky labeling of public healthcare as "socialized medicine" they will try to attack other public services. We are the greatest nation on earth and we can do public healthcare better than Canada and Europe, whom "conservatives" keep bringing up when trying to find reasons to oppose public healthcare. They are just afraid that when we all truly prioritize what we really spend money on then we will cut out the blatant overspending by "conservatives" who show absolutely no restraint when it comes to ridiculous overspending of taxpayer money. I have no idea why anyone would label Republicans as conservatives. I see nothing conservative about what they do. And I am not a liberal person by any means. I just believe in education and healthcare are two things our great nation should have total access to, not just the rich.
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