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Originally Posted by WagnerX5
Personally I don't want our government, in it's current state, running healthcare for the citizens. It would be a corrupt and bias event far exceeding the current corruption IMO.
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Corruption only seems to enter the picture in US politics when there is some profit to be made from something.
For example, last time I checked, I don't know of any corruption in the Post Office. Or the Social Security Administration. But in areas like the military or the FDA, there is tons of corruption because of all the large contracts being given out.
So I agree that if we were to adopt Hillary Clinton's & Barack Obama's plan (they are both very similar) in which we expand the Medicaid program to cover uninsured Americans, then the system will be corrupt as in its current state it is being administered by the private HMOs and the private drug companies. But if you were to eliminate them from the picture, you would indeed eliminate the corruption. The profit making is what causes the corruption. So far the only candidate proposing this is Dennis Kucinich, although there is a bill that has been written already and is being sponsored in the House by John Conyers.