Conservatism For Universal Healthcare

Conservatism For Universal Healthcare

Many people say we can’t have a one-payer government public health system. They tell us it is socialism. They say we would wait in line for healthcare like Canada and that the government would ration healthcare and people will die. All of this sounds very scary. However, it doesn’t have to be that way.

Are these people and these voices saying that there is no way of doing government healthcare for all with a single payer system, because Canada or parts of Europe couldn’t figure it out? If we put the entire country on Medicare and end the private health insurance industry once and for all, why does it have to be as bad as Canada? What else should we not do or try because Canada and Europe failed at it? Since when do we give these people the bar and make their efforts our measure on whether we can do something or not.

People, it all comes down to how we as a country spend our money on government. Don’t tell me that we can send all of this foreign aide to countries all over the world each year but simply have no money to put everyone on Medicare and fund it. If that is what we truly want in this country, then don’t tell me we can’t figure it out.

Here is how you fund it. Go to every employer and find out how much they spend on healthcare a year. Drop the responsibility for healthcare that makes them uncompetitive and put their people on the public plan. Charge the business a tax equal to twenty-five percent of what they were spending each year on it. Take ninety-five percent of foreign aide, for instance the one point five billion a year to Pakistan for roads and bridges. And finally, abolish most government agencies and czars; just keep and fund the basics required by the Constitution.

If we want Americans to have a right to universal healthcare, we have a Medicare system already in place. Just fund it. If it is a priority then prioritize it and cut all this other nonsense the government is wasting money on. We can pay for healthcare through our tax system as part of being Americans. We just need to spend the tax revenues where they’ll work for what the .....Read More

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