The USA has the greatest medical care on earth. We do not have a medical crisis. Period.

The ability of Doctors, Hospitals and Pharmaceutical companies to earn a profit is the reason we have the best medical care on Earth. Take that away and you wind up with mediocrity – do you want a half a$$ed doctor assigned to you by a civil servant who doesn’t care about you and can’t be fired for incompetence? Trust me, I am a Civil Servant. You do not want that. Ever.

Do you want to wait months for surgical procedures – they do in Canada and the UK.

Do you want the same doctor for the rest of your life without the choice to change if you dislike him or her? – I live in the Netherlands and that is the way it is here.

Do you want to be given the most cost effective treatment or the best treatment – that’s just Government SOP.

Do you want medical equipment and drugs produced by the lowest bidder? – again, welcome to Government.

In addition to ALL of this, Drug research companies will no longer have a reason to spend money on R&D. Development probably will not end but it will slow down to a snail’s pace. Companies in India producing the counterfeit drugs you get so cheaply over the internet from Canada will have no new drugs to copy.

We DO, have a problem where the Government has created a payment system based on insurance companies, tort claims and the fraud that is Medicare. This combination inflates the cost and complication of everything related to the medical field. Find me a solution to THAT which doesn’t include the problems I named above and we can talk.

On April 23rd, 2009 at 10:20 am, Mister P said:
Besides why call a communist a socialist?

Amen, and thank God there’s another person who understands this.

In response to the question; I suppose the answer is that conservatives with a public voice are terrified of being label “McCarthyites”. Afraid of being labelled McCarthyite by whom? Why, by communists, of course.

Cowardice. Insane cowardice.

It’s a word, and it’s the appropriate word.

Communism.

C’mon folks, say it with me … “Kaaah – myooo – nism”. It’s fun. It feels good to say. Say it.

Calling the leftists in this country “Socialists” implies that there’s some leftist out there thinking, “You know, I’d like to redistribute the nation’s wealth; but, I only really want to redistribute half of it.” or.. “but I only want to redistribute 72.6% of it.”

No, they want ALL of it redistributed. Socialism is not a state of being — it is a process. Specifically, it is the process by which a Capitalism is “changed” into a Communism. Sure, there are other definitions of socialism; but the other definitions are actually the equivalent of Communism. If one suggests that Socialism is like a lesser degree of Communism (“Communism lite”, if you will) then you’re already using Marx’s definition. I only ask that people use it properly.

Further, calling the leftists “Socialists” implies that because they haven’t turned the nation into a full-fledged Communism literally overnight, then Communism must not be the goal. It is. Communism is their goal. The process by which they intend to achieve it is called Socialism. It is the means to “progress” toward Communism (hence the term “progressive”)

Levin has opted for the term “Statist”. He did not invent this term. Statism = Communism. It is the same thing. (go ahead, look it up) So why choose a relatively obscure term, when a more familiar and readily understood term (which means the exact same thing) is avialable?

Again, cowardice. Fear of being labelled “McCarthyite” by the left. Seriously? Fear of being called a name? Fear of being called a name by your enemy? Fear of being called “anti-Communist” by a bunch of Communists? Who’s lost their minds here? The Left or the Right?

There is no Socialism — only incomplete Communism. There are no Socialists — only unfinished Communists.

Calling them “Socialists” suggest that they just want a few “social reforms”, or that they only want a little redistribution of wealth. It suggests that they could quit now, and consider their goals achieved and complete.

No. They’re Communists alright. And they aren’t done yet.

In fact, it is precisely the fact that they aren’t done yet, that proves that they’re Communists and not “Socialists”.

PBS…??? I was not born yesterday.

Gee, didn’t see that one coming.

They lay out an objective analysis of our current health care system by following a handful of success and failure stories. Do you think they made everything up? Fabricated these stories out of whole cloth? Tricked representatives from the insurance industry to say the system needs an overhaul? You may not have been born yesterday, but you certainly behave like someone who was. What are you afraid of?

BTW, still waiting on your solution to our dysfunctional health care system. Do it for America — your country needs you!

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and craps all over the place like a socialist…..

Socialism IS what Democrats are promoting. When the election comes around, even Americans who get their news from CNN should know what the Dems really stand for.

Our contest, and our multiple electoral battles are against Democrats,
not an -ism.

Now, let’s make sure the GOP doesn’t stand for the same sprint towards Socialism, but at a slower pace.

The head of the Republican Party called on President Barack Obama to withdraw Kathleen Sebelius’ nom…

Socialism will usher in a new era in this county. The great wealth of the U.S. will for the first time be for the benefit of all the people. Foreign policy will be based on mutual respect, peace, and solidarity. The people’s democratic rights will be guaranteed and expanded. Racial, gender, and social equality will be the basis of domestic policies and practices. Socialism is not a dream, but a necessity to working people’s lives. Only socialism has the solutions to the problems of capitalism in this country.

-Program of the Communist Party USA:
The Road to Socialism USA

Program of the Communist Party USA:
The Road to Socialism USA

Our party fights for jobs and economic security, a decent and rising standard of living, peace, justice, equality, a sustainable environment, gay rights, health care, education, affordable housing, the needs of seniors, democracy, and a fulfilling life for everyone, with socialism as our goal. Only through the abolition of the capitalist system and the socialist reorganization of society can exploitation of human beings by others, and the evils of oppression, war, racism, environmental degradation, and poverty be ended. We seek to build a socialist society which puts people and nature before profits.

Our country’s founding Revolution exalted the ideals of equality, justice, and democracy, of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all. Marxists have long hailed its progressive significance, while recognizing its historical limitations, chief of which was the failure to abolish slavery. The Communist Party today upholds the continuing struggle to realize these ideals. The revolutionary democratic traditions of the United States call for radical change when injustice, inequality, and exploitation become unbearably oppressive. This legacy gives us, the working class and its allies, the right and responsibility to build a new society. We advocate an expanded Bill of Rights to guarantee religious, political, and individual freedoms, but also freedom from poverty, hunger, joblessness, and racism.

Racism plays a particularly destructive role in the life of our country, imposing severely impoverished living standards on tens of millions of the specially oppressed, and lowering the quality of life for all workers. Racism harms all workers, obstructing the development of working-class consciousness, driving wedges in class unity to divert attention from class exploitation, and creating extra profits for the capitalist class. The Communist Party is unalterably opposed to all manifestations of racism, national oppression, U.S. national chauvinism, male supremacy, homophobia, and anti-Semitism, which are used by the enemies of progress to divide the working class and people’s forces. The principles of democracy, equality, justice, and class self-interest require a joint fight against all expressions of racism and gender oppression. We fight for full equality for all who suffer from racial, national, and gender oppression as an essential aspect of the unity that is basic to all social progress.

Issues of war and peace, wealth and poverty, ecology and pollution, racial and national division, gender discrimination, and international conflict are all connected to class struggle, and have common features on which to build unity among peoples, organizations, and coalitions. The working class as the necessary leading force along with the other core forces—all racially and nationally oppressed groups, women, and youth—can build a movement that also includes the many streams of our working people—such as family farmers, small business owners, and the self-employed—who united together have the power to make fundamental progressive change.

Peace is essential for the survival of the planet and humanity. The pursuit of world domination to further enrich capitalists has resulted in destructive wars, environmental devastation, and massive poverty. The Communist Party fights for solidarity among the working class and peoples of all lands and supports their pursuit of self-determination over their own lands and economies. In the spirit of working-class internationalism, the Communist Party builds the closest bonds with Communist and Workers Parties throughout the world.

Founded in Chicago in 1919, the Communist Party of the United States has an outstanding history in the struggles for peace, democratic rights, racial and gender equality, economic justice, union organization, and international solidarity. Our Party is organized on the principle of democratic centralism, combining maximum democratic discussion and decision-making with maximum unity of will and action, ensuring our ability to play a strong organizing role in the class struggle. We focus our efforts on increasing our ability to organize millions into struggle, fighting anti-communism as a divisive weapon of the capitalist class. With Marxism-Leninism guiding our actions, the Communist Party strives to build the broadest unity against global capitalist imperialism now headed by U.S. imperialism, for immediate gains and reforms that benefit working people, and for a progressive democratization of the government, the economy, and society of our country on the road to and after winning socialism.

With pride in our past and confidence in our future, we hereby establish this Constitution of the Communist Party of the United States America.

The goal of socialism is communism.

-Vladimir Lenin