Let's face it, the primal terror that Americans face every day is that of getting sick and a) dying b) receiving improper care or c) going bankrupt...or all of that together. And you can't really control that. I mean, if you get into a car accident and wake up in the hospital a few hundred thousand dollars later, you're done. Finished.
Now compared to that, the theoretical possibility that some terrorist somewhere will do something and that socialized medicine will make that possible, is almost nil.
So. You know. Pulling out the terror card this early might show nothing other than their desperation.
Joanna
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>BOWYER: A state run health care enterprise is
>bureaucratic, and I think the terrorists have shown
>over and over again, whether it’s dealing with INS or
>whether it’s dealing with airport security, they’re
>very good at gaming the system with bureaucracies.
>They’re very good at getting around bureaucracies. […]
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>And if one of your guys is a jihadist, if one of your
>doctors is spending all the time online reading Osama
>bin Laden fatwas, someone’s going to notice that. But
>the National Health Serfvice is more like the post
>office, you know there’s a lot of anonymity, it’s easy
>to hide in the bureaucracy.
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