And people ask why I don't want government health care ...
UK Daily Mail: Bed shortage forces 4,000 mothers to give birth in lifts, offices and hospital toilets.  And being refused ambulances.  And turned out of the hospital to give birth in bathrooms.

But wait, you say, we're Americans!  We can do better than our cousins across the pond!  But you see, we already have one national health care system, the Veterans Affairs system.  You know, like Walter Reed Hospital?  The one that has all the problems?  Oh, wait ... it's not just Walter Reed.  It's the whole system.  Maybe it's just me, but I don't want the people who run a health-care system that's just waiting for it's patients to die and then downplaying the problems to be the only health-care system available.

Should everyone have access to needed health care?  Absolutely.  Should the Government be in charge of it?  Hell no.  Not unless they can find their ass with at least one hand.  Which, judging by the available evidence, they can't.

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