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Marine: Believe in a strong U.S.? Support national health care
Date published: 10/12/2009 Marine: Believe in a strong U.S.? Support national health care "The health of people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend." British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, author of the quote, understood this profound truism more than 100 years ago. That as much as a human right, universal health care is a national security imperative, to say nothing of the moral imperative. It's time America invests in and takes care of its own, as its Marine Corps has done since the founding of this nation. We need comprehensive health care reform now, for America's sake. This patriotic plea to do the right thing by all Americans comes to you from a 30-year U.S. Marine. Gordon Colston Stafford
Date published: 10/12/2009
Retired Marine promised health care
(posted by
raymaelynn57
, Oct. 14, 2009 2:18 pm)
You crack me up talking down Tricare. Is it perfect, heck now. However, I am retired military as well and I do not personally know one retiree who gave it up to pay thousands per month out of their pocket for insurance. Give me a break. Thanks for your service, but paleeeeze.
Plubius ,,, can you at least agree with this?
(posted by
sacha
, Oct. 13, 2009 7:21 pm)
As long as taxpayer dollars pay for the militaries' healthcare which is almost free to them ... it is a government health program. I don't know what is so hard to understand. My tax dollars don't pay for my next door neighbors' private health insurance, but it does pay for my neighbor down the street who is a miltary retiree and even he says it's the best public program he can buy! Services which are paid for by taxpayers are government programs (no matter who contracts with the government ).
Good point (I can't believe I just wrote that)
(posted by
DRay9529
, Oct. 13, 2009 12:53 pm)
PubliusTwo, but the oath is not talking about the government as being domestic enemies. Otherewise there wouldn't be a clause stating for you to obey the orders of the POTUS. If you advocate the overthrow of elected officials by force then you are a terrorist not a patriot. You are then not upholding the Constitution, which we are have sworn to protect.
So pub. why don't you
(posted by
True_Bob
, Oct. 13, 2009 12:23 pm)
mention that approach as a option? Tricare is a single payer plan, like so many publlic options proposed. You just demonstrated that it isn't one of those common socialist plots. Sounds like something to go for.
DRay9529
(posted by
PUBLIUSTWO
, Oct. 13, 2009 12:16 pm)
Unless you have another oath in mind, the one previously posted has no clause to exclude government officials from being "domestic enemies". An out of control, tyrannical government was precisely what our Founding Fathers rose up against. They are indeed capable of being the enemy of the state, and it would be PATRIOTISM, not TERRORISM to remove them. I'm sure the British government looked at the Minutemen as terrorists as well. You would be considered a "Loyalist" under those terms.
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