lordjedi
I'm sorry but you are a very selfish man. Go travel the world a little and see what happens in those countries where the government does not take care of the poor. And you wonder why democrats have some a low opinion of some republicans, its the ME ME ME additude, the 'i don't care for anyone except myself' veiw point that just causes them so much grief.
I live in canada, and we have a universal healthcare system, and very hightaxes, and you know what yeah its not perfect, but we have a much cleaner society, we dont have people dieing on the side of the streets(as would happen without medicare), or getting kicked out of hospitals with major injuries just because they dont have insurance.
I personally am heading into the medical feild. Maybe you should be the one to tell the person with a broken leg that they have to leave. Or tell the girl that got raped face to face, tough luck missy, you now need to be an incubator for the next nine months and have your vagina stretched wide enough for a beachball to come through. You speak with little to no empathy for others. Yes it is unfortunate that your father died, but we are not talking about brain cancer(which does suck i am sorry about that, I currently am working at the BC Cancer agency, research cancer treatment) but you are dealing with apples and oranges, medicare will not cover someones costs ever if they have cancer. medicare is for more common everyday things. Flu medicine, antibiotics. You say your not very weathly. Well you have a job that pays enough for you to get a computer and have the internet. That puts you head and shoulders above alot of other people.
And for the record, how much biology have you studied, what do you consider to be a new life. I am literally shocked at how appalled people get at abbortion, you know how many embryos they through in the trash at fertility clinic. Yet you never hear anyone outlawing those, hmm. If you want to call a embryo a life because it has the potiental to grow into a new person, why not take it a step further, sperm and eggs have the same potiental. Hmm, its not a cut and dry subject when it comes to what you define as 'new life'. I wonder really what your opinion would be if you had to an incubator for 9 months.