Nationalizing Health Care
I am not going to write a long post on this topic. But I will say this about Nationalized Health Care, I believe it will run into the same problems Medicare has. Abuse, fraud and a lower standard of service associated with a one pay system. Plus socialized medicine will never be able to sustain itself. Goodness the government couldn’t even run the post office, they had to outsource it.
Politicians and news media types always quote a figure…45 million Americans without health care. How do they know? Of that number, do they bother to ask the question…How many of you were offered health benefits by your employers, but were too selfish to sign-up for health benefits because you did not want to pay a portion of the premium. I know some people do not have health care benefits with their employer, but some do and refuse it.
I personally know people who work for companies that offer health care plans, but they refuse them claiming they can’t afford it. The problem with that rationale is…I see these same people running to Starbucks every day for their latte. Or they come into work with new clothes every week.
I want to know the answer to that question. How many refuse their employers health plan? So when you quote the statistic on how many Americans do not have health benefits, beware, numbers can lie.
Currently the majority of the people in this country pay taxes to help support those who refuse to work. So let’s pick a number– say 65% of the working class support 35% of those who cannot or will not work. If we continue down this road of nationalizing health care and even industry, pretty soon, we will have 40% working and 60% not working, and then 35% working and 65% not working. Pretty soon I won’t even be able to support myself with the income I make…then what?
Nationalization is not the answer to our health care problems…it is only the beginning of our health care problems.
Most of the people I know that have emigrated here from a socialized country say the main reason they came to the United States was to get away from socialism. Ask them…they will tell you…they got sick of the government taking 55-60% of their income. Watch out people, nationalizing health care is an accident waiting to happen.
I come from a very poor background. My parents had four children and started a small cafe when they were first married. Health care benefits…are you kidding? So I do know what it is like not to have health benefits. But my parents will tell you, that they worked damn hard for everything they got…and that is exactly what they passed on to their children. A sense of responsibility–not a sense of entitlement.
