I am pretty sure nobody who reads my blog is against Obama’s healthcare plan, but if you are, we need to talk. (I know people outside the US might not understand to the extent at which this is a dividing issue here). Who would have though so much controversy would come from someone trying to provide everyone with healthcare? Not to mention someone who campaigned on the idea, and got elected in part because of it.
Lets get this real straight: This plan will save money. If you are against it, turn off Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck, take down your confederate flag, and use your brain.
Today, anyone, healthcare or not, citizen or not, can walk into any hospital in the country and get treatment. Many people do. And the ones that don’t have healthcare? You and I pay for them, through our insurance, who receives inflated charges from the hospital because of the additional burden of these uninsured. Do you really think that having the government run healthcare is going to make us pay for everyone else more than we currently do? (For a point of reference every month I pay over $700 to insurance just for my daughter and I)
Having country-wide heathcare would allow us to formalize this process, and make sure that those who were previously going to the hospital and getting free care (ie defaulting on their payments) are now taxed for it. You can get out of hospital bills, but getting out of taxes is a million times harder. For people here illegally, that is a issue that is mutually exclusive from this, as their coverage wouldn’t change with this plan.
As for the idea of death panels? They exist already. Insurance companies drop people, and their personal savings run out. Sending a loved one to a nursing home or hospice is already deciding their fate. Before “ObamaCare” your fate was decided by money. After it, you will still be able to have to decided by money. That doesn’t change.
You can call it socialist, and I can call you a fool, because as I said already, we already care for everyone, they just default on their bills.
Go ahead and use the Post Office as a case study of why government shouldn’t run things. Show me one small business that can deliver mail to any address in the US for < 50 cents. It isn’t possible. What they do is phenomenal given their budget and scope. If I lived in rural Idaho, no commercial interest would ever drive a letter out to me for that price. And the benefits? Increased communication, resulting in increased national commerce. Driven anywhere? Yeah the government runs the roads so well I can do that.
Bring on your ignorance in the comments.