When will Republicans de-fund Planned Parenthood? I don’t want my tax money going to abortion clinics like Planned Parenthood.
As some other answers have already noted, tax money never pays for abortions, but let's take a look at some of the other services provided:birth controlSTD testing, treatment or vaccinesMen's Health Services, vasectomies and reproductive health issuesWomen's health services, including:checkups when you have a reproductive/sexual health problembreast examscervical cancer screeningcolposcopyLEEP (treatment of abnormal pap)mammogram referralsPap testsexual response educationurinary tract infections – testing and treatmentvaginal infections – testing and treatmentEmergency Contraception (morning after pill)Pregnancy testing and counseling on options which include parenting, adoption, adoption referrals, or abortionWhile you may have issues with SOME of the services that they provide, I hope you don't believe that people should be denied essential reproductive health services, many of which help to actually reduce the need for abortions. If you are truly prolife, then support planned parenthood, because most of their services are about preventing unwanted pregnancy, and ensuring that women and men remain healthy for future pregnancies. Although they are the most visible organization for providing abortions, that is only a tiny part of what they do. Only some of their locations even perform abortions. If you don't believe me, check out their website plannedparenthood.org, you can see what services they offer. Don't support the elimination of funding for a major providor of reproductive health services because of one service they provide, especially since it isn't even the most important or common one.
Why doesn't every other person in the US pursue a medical degree, if this career pays such enormous amounts of money?
Medical school is extremely expensive. You're looking at an investment of about $200,000 in tuition in addition to living expenses over four years which might total $80,000. If you have $280,000 to invest, you're already wealthy and could invest that in something that would earn you more than $50,000 as a resident.Medical school is very time consuming. You might not get in the first year you apply, and when you do eventually get in you spend four years in school and then another 2-5 years in residency. While in residency, you'll be earning about the same amount of money that those with a bachelor's degree earn. Those who spend 1 or 2 years getting their MBA will be making $100,000 - $200,000 (while at the same time possibly working) and those with simply an engineering undergrad degree might be making $100,000+ in select markets such as San Francisco. Those with trade school education could be making as high as $250,000 in very selective markets. Those in mining might be making $100,000 with little-to-no education. Gross salary isn't the best measure of return-on-investment. Doctors typically make around $200,000. You spend four years in medical school while your friend spends four years working. During those four years, your friend might have started out making $40,000 per and climbed his way to $70,000 per year. Next, he goes to get his MBA and 1 year later is making $160,000 as a management consultant. You on the other hand are making $60,000 as a second-year resident with $280,000 in debt; he might have $150,000 in debt. By the time you're making $200,000 he'll probably be making the same. Either of you could make more than the other. A Harvard law grad might be making $160,000 after 3 years while you haven't even finished schooling.Skillsets. People with good soft skills can make a lot of money in sales. People with a balance of soft and hard skills can make it good in business. People with a knack for science and good soft skills can excel in medicine. People just have different skills. People with strong non-quantitative skills can excel in law.Boredom. Medicine is a highly specialized field, particularly at the highest levels of pay unless you go into admin/management. Generally speaking, the business pathway gives you more variability.Selectivity of schools. They purposely limit the amount of people they admit.
Does this show that the intelligence level of most liberals is not that high?
Liberalism: Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. Not only do these parasites want UHC, they want us to be socialists. UHC has always been a dismal failure; socialism has always lead to bread lines, death camps and misery.
Why do some opponents of health care reform trust insurance companies more than the government?
Because they are unaware that death panels are already in existence and run by insurance company executives. If more people were aware of that, maybe the USA would have a healthcare system that the worlds most powerful nation deserves. I am always amazed how many Americans seem not to be aware about the issues with healthcare relying on FOX and other sources to spread misinformation about the healthcare system of the USA and those abroad. First of all, Obama wants to make insurance more available to all and change the system so that it is cheaper [1]. He also wants change so that the insurance companies find it harder to get out of paying for treatment. The system he is proposing looks similar to that which works in Holland and Switzerland where private companies are involved in providing insurance [2]. Second, of course universal health-cover sucks. That is why we in Western Europe have it. We think, hmm, our healthcare system sucks. I know, lets keep it. I guess that is the same with Japan and Canada as well. Third, Obama campaigned on reforming the healthcare system. He said he wanted to make insurance more available and he was elected by the American people to do this [3]. FACT - the US has higher death rates for kids both for kids aged under one and those under five than western European countries with universal health coverage [4,5]. FACT – American insurance companies push up prices and work to stop paying out claims on those they cover [6]. FACT - the USA spends more on healthcare PER PERSON than any other nation on the planet [7]. That means that a dead American four year old would have had a better chance of life if they were born in Canada, France, Cuba, Germany, Japan etc, all of which have universal health coverage. Last of all if you do not like the policies that Obama was elected to bring in, he can always be voted out of office in 2012.