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Socialized health care solution?

I have a proposed solution to the issue of socialized health care. On the one hand, supporters of it feel that health care is a basic need for the people that should be fulfilled by the government. On the other hand, detractors feel that additional taxes should not be taken from them for health care, especially since they're essentially paying for other people's health bills if they are themselves healthy. Also, socialized health care leads to great stress put onto the medical workers, which leads to lower wages and waiting lists. This is highly dependent on the level of funding though, but that is also dependent on the amount of tax dollars taken from each person. One compromise I've heard of is that individuals can still choose private health care, so if they have more money they can still get the best coverage. But then, they are still paying money for public health care they will not even be using! My solution - those who support public health care can sign up for it. Those who sign up for it with the government get a special government issued health care card that they can use at any public clinic. They get the health care taxes taken out by the government automatically. Those who do not sign up, will get no taxes taken out, and can resume their private health care coverage, either through private insurance or their own private health care savings account. This way, those people who want to, can fulfill their moral obligations, and those against the philosophy do not have to get money taken away from them. I do not see why this could not work. There would be significantly less funding for the public health care programs, but since so many people would not participate in it, not just because they're against the political philosophy but because they don't want such a huge tax chunk taken out of their paychecks regularly, there would be far less of a need for widespread public health care institutions. Spock, that worthless woman would be essentially dipping into the funds of those who choose to support socialized health care. That is one of the flaws of it, so they would have to deal with it.

Public Comments

1. Wow.....with that much of a cut in my taxes I can afford even better health insurance than I have now. thanks!
2. I just want the same health care the D.C. crowd receives.
3. i'm afraid you haven't looked into the economics of health care very much. there's a 20 something year old single mother of three who illustrates the problems of freedom and health care. This woman chooses to spend zero on health insurance for herself; her priority is her 60" tv [she wants to get HD 1080i] followed by custom wheels and tires for her car. Her health care philosophy is that if she needs major care, she'll get it through the ER and then declare bankruptcy. [IE: won't pay]. Her three kids are on Medicaid. Their fathers regularly omit to pay even token child support. Now, this woman isn't going to buy private health insurance and won't sign up for your government plan unless you seize the money from her pay checks a la Hillary. your choice is? *** the government plan would very quickly become very expensive and that'll eat tax dollars from everyone who isn't a member of it. aside from the woman mentioned, no is it that tends to not have health insurance? those with high health care costs, that's who.
4. socialized health care concentrate on the health of body also mind. They are a little stressed. The site called pubspa has a lot of knowledge about caring health, massage.
5. While you're not too far off something that has merit, it won't fly for three major reasons. First, those who want UHC are socialists--they mislabel themselves liberals--but a true liberal is for maximum liberty, limited government, so they are mistaken in their label. They want CONTROL. This is why Hillary is honest enough to have admitted to garnishing wages--you can't support UHC by those who USE the services, you have to soak those who won't in order to get it up and running. Second, you don't address the issue of children--this is the latest tool of the "libs" everything is about the children YET they are putting an unsupportable TAX BURDEN on the children and actually doing NOTHING else. There is NO documented history of children being left to die by the heartless folks of the US--you see abortions, you see infanticide, you see "breeders" who leave kids while they're off scoring drugs, but you NEVER hear of people taking a sick infant to a hospital where the hospital staff say: "Money first or the kid dies." We in fact, have things such as St. Jude's Children's Hospital (100% charity-based and started by PEOPLE not a government entity) that has NEVER, EVER turned a worthy child away for inability to pay AND has treated children from DOZENS of other countries as well. There are a multitude of charitable organizations focused on giving money for medical care for children, but the liars want to claim that the evil peope of the US will let children die rather than "pay a bit more in taxes so they can be insured." Insured is NOT health care--ask the 75% of people who declare medical bankruptcy and were always "insured." Third, If you do this, then those who are too irresponsible to part with a penny and DO become ill will do what for health care? The taxpayer is still going to take it in the shorts like he always does. We will also have to listen to interminable WHINING about how "the poor" get "substandard" care because they can only get public health--however, those who say that want ALL of us in that leaky boat. In other words, there is NO satisfying terminal whiners. It's not just that they want total control they can't accept the FACTS of life: some people will get sick, some will die, at too young an age and through no fault of their own (why did Jim Fixx the runner die before 45? Surely it's "our" fault. It just HAS to be otherwise what's the point in trying to control everyone's life if we have to admit we can't?) I still think a plan that is a bit different than yours is the best I've seen. No one is forced onto it and it does deal with the "he got sick and hadn't paid in" issue. http://www.booklocker.com/books/3068.html Read the PDF, not the blurb, for the bulk of the plan. Book is searchable on Amazon.com Cassandra Nathan's Save America, Save the World