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I think there are definitely legitimate concerns to have. There are definitely multiple - and completely legitimate - views about how health care reform would effect our economy, positively and negatively, and differing views about how best to make our health care system work as well.

However, some of the arguments used against health care reform are just absurd. Secret plots to kill old people? Our health care is fine so don't touch it (memo: it isn't, and we're 50th in world life expectancy)? No, those aren't realistic arguments and will only aide the cause of the current health care reformers.

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Typical Liberal. So what is the conservative plan? I know you havent a clue because you are a liberal robot.

What you are encouraging is a government take over of health care. Is that what you wnat SDU? Please answer the question. I know it is not very liberal to answer a question.

This Health Care thing is real important to 260 Million Americans. So since you are speaking for the other 50 million who are made up of people who really need care, ILLEGALS, and people who DO NOT WANT it answer the questions liberal.

1. What is the consevative plan?
2. Your supporting government take over of health care?

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The problem is that it's socialized medicine, and anything social, republicans disapprove of. But seriously, our country is afraid of the word socialism. It worked great for us in the cold war, but our inability to accept Marxist values may end up ruining us economically. While the free market has worked for us in the past, it might be time to start using a little intelligent design in creating our society for the future. The fact of the matter is that our country is quickly spiraling towards bankruptcy, in large part due to the money we spend on medicare, medicaid, and social security. All of these fall under the department of human services which last year spent $737 billion. To make things worse, the baby boomers are quickly approaching retirement, when they become eligible for these benefits and costs will sky rocket. But what if the solution is health care reform? If the government started collecting what's bascially health insurance payments from a significant amount of americans aged 18-50, who need health care at a rate infinitely lower than that of retirees, we might have a shot of avoiding this financial hurdle. However, I think the democrats are timid about health care reform because they know that if there's even a hiccup in the implementation or execution (poor word choice) of the new health system the republicans will go rabid. The problem is that right now everyone is fighting over who should be captain of a sinking ship when we should all just try to bail out as much water as possible.

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But free enterprise IS responsible for the current economic turmoil. A market based society is bound to go into a depression. That's how the market works. It's unavoidable. But if some socialism is used to control the economy, these depressions can be avoided, the tradeoff of course being that market growth is generally curbed.

Medicaid and Social Security are going to fail because we have an ageing population. But now the government is trying to do something to fix the problem. See? The government can involve itself in the private sector as long as people like you don't try to argue against reform simply because they're still afraid of communism. We're the most capitalist nation in the world. A little socialism isn't going to hurt us.

Additionally, the writers of the constitution could never have imagined our industrialized, corporate, global economy. And while the constitution is a fine document for framing our laws and social structure, theres no way that you can argue that the framers would have been against communism. Marx didn't publish the communist manifesto until 1848!

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Fact is they didn't want to make those loans, otherwise it wouldn't have taken government pressure for them to do it. It not rocket sience to know that when you invest $0.00 into a home, walking away when the interest rates rise is a no brainer. And sure banks made money, but they also knew it would be short lived. Thus, they packaged the bad loans and sold them to Fannie and Freddie and anyone else who would buy them. So, to you, governement at it's best is forcing a business to do things that the business knows are bad. ??
Actually you can bash Bush all you want, I wasn't an avid fan of the "compassionate conservative", but his tax cuts kept this country going after 9/11. You can argue that point, but most of the Bush years saw a very robust economy. Most of Bush's term saw very low unemployment, low interest rates, no inflation and a strong market. But, Bush and the Republican's in Congress blew it with all the spending and not pushing hard for more aggressive oversight on Freddie and Fannie.

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