No, I’d rather like a system like most states have that’s separate from Medicaid. There’s an income restriction, but it’s relatively generous. Once you pass the limit, you’re then expected to pay, just like you would with group insurance at work. But since the “pool” is so large, the co-payments are reasonable. Right now I have a self-pay plan with CareFirst BC/BS and it’s extremely expensive. But since I’m self-employed, I don’t have a boss taking care of me — I have to do everything myself. Which is fine, but it would be nice to have a larger pool to share insurance with. Right now the Maryland plan only extends to children, but there’s a push to offer it to all residents. I would gladly pay, since it’s a happy medium between no insurance and what I pay now.

No way in heck I’d want a “free ride” from the government. The only person who hands anything out for free is the devil or the dope man. No thank you, ma’am!

It amazes me that the leftist campuses are so virulently anti-Christian and pro-Islamic fascism! They don’t even try to hide their bias, either!!

We need to spread word about both of these incidences and share this information throughout the blogosphere. People need to wake up and see who the leftist loonies at secular American Universities are and notice how they are involved with stamping upon the free speech rights of conservative Republican and/or Christian students!!

It’s all about leftist extremism and indoctrination, folks!!

We can no longer just sit by and let this happen to our college students! Something big needs to change and I hope that the blogs will at least help bring about such change!!

La Shawn – I wanted your opinion of the following excerpt from the question and answer session (got this via the Columbia Spectator page).

A young black male questioner said that although the speakers spoke positively about the United States, he (the questioner) felt that for a black man the United States was a very violent place. Also, Walid had expressed his admiration for Martin Luther King Jr, and the questioner asked what about Malcolm X. Anani responded that if the questioner thought the United States was violent, welcome to Beirut, where, for 30 years, 200-300 people were killed in the streets daily. Look at Iraq now, where Sunnis and Shiites are killing each other. All through the Muslim world, sectarian violence is a problem, and it has nothing to do with the United States. Walid said that all countries have problems, but Abu Ghraib and Baruch Goldstein are exceptional, and acts of violence and hate crimes are routinely denounced in the United States and Israel, whereas the Muslim world celebrates killings of Americans and Jews. He said he did not have a high opinion of Malcolm X, who, unlike MLK, preached divisiveness rather than love.

That’s funny…it immediately brought my mother’s voice into my head…”You HEARD me!” which absolutely meant I better do what I was told or _else_!

“the incessant lefty bleat of ‘Having Our Voices Heard’ has no credibility. being heard isn’t the point. what they want is to be obeyed.”

liberal-leftwinger-stalinist-totalitarian…..it’s all the same philosophy. only difference is just the matter of degree. way to go, columbia! proud stifler of unauthorized-by-the-party speech! really, they’re just like the brave patriots who risked their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor when they founded this country.

/sarcasm

By the way – along other lines…. check this out:

http://tinyurl.com/toyxa

Good site to add to your bookmarks, also by the way.

I think the liberals call that “nuance.” Which means, suek, that you and I are too dumb to know what is good for us and we should be grateful that they are willing to do our thinking for us.

Ah yes. One of my pet peeves. Someone – anyone – asks a question (and yes, I watch Fox news, so it’s usually there, but not always…talk radio is pretty much the same) and the conservative answers the question, the Dhimmicrat talks around and around and never does answer whatever was asked. Sometimes it seems that they don’t even _hear_ the question…they just have a green light that says they’ve been asked a question, and they go on to the next talking point. If they don’t make _any_ effort to answer reasonable questions, I’m agin ‘em.

I know we were all that young, but the mind reels!

When American liberals think of national health insurance, they always imagine their own wonderful, private insurance coverage, only, FREE! And for everyone! Well, that’s not what you get. You get substandard medical care, doctors who are overworked, nurses who are overworked, long waiting lists for an appointment, a loss of freedom and flexibility to see the doctors of your choice, and a fight every single time you want a prescription medicine or a surgical procedure.

Think of the worst HMO you can imagine. That’s socialized medicine, and if you have a complaint, no one gives a damn. I know what I’m talking about. Oh, and Canadians aren’t too happy with their national health service either.

I’m pretty liberal, at least socially, and I don’t believe in any of those things except the national healthcare system. I’d like to see something more efficient than the current Medicaid system, which is a complete disaster and a waste of tax dollars.

It reminds me of when all those Conservatives physically attacked the (also Conservative) ‘Protest Warriors’ in the street and smashed their banners, because they didn’t understand the ironic slogans.
Huzzah!