According to the Wall Street Journal we as a whole spend about $2 trillion in health care and at least 46 million people don’t have health coverage.
With this new health care system that our fantastic president has offered us we will all be saved from the harshness of the premiums we already pay. Then this new health care bill will save us and makes us all have great "healthy" affordable life styles right?
Some friends, family, co-workers and some of the commentators on TV are making you think that this health care system is going to almost cost us nothing. Trust me we are still going to pay the same amount just in different ways.
How much do you think the government would make you pay? The goal of this isn't to make health care free but to have the government directly set premiums. What is the cost here? This would go into everything from your gas tax to your sales tax. One goes as far as to imposing a surtax on wealthy individuals, or taxing sugary drinks and soda.
What is the coverage what is the co-pay? I don't understand how we can be so excited for something that we are letting a bunch of people in Washington decide. Do we remember some of the great things these people have done like the Patriot Act? or the mess that is Social Security? Medicare? Our government is trying to become a business that has influence over the private sector that it should have nothing to do with. Next could have them making cars, or government food. If you don't use the government facilities provided then you will also pay the penalty.
I know a lot of people that are depending on government run benefits like unemployment to make ends meet right now. My own wife gets some of this money and when there is an issue with it she has to call in and deal with a large bureaucratic mess. I don't want this same thing to happen to my health care. I have a hard enough time trying to figure out the health insurance thing without having to deal with the same people that write the tax code trying to put in their two cents.
Why create new taxes instead of less? I think a certain English King from back in 1776 is laughing at us in his grave. Maybe that explains the recent earthquakes. Well that's enough of my short rambling on the matter; what do you think?
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I'm sorry but I have to disagree. I think that executed correctly this program could bring America to the next level. It would give Americans without the opportunity to obtain health insurance to have that luxury. And If I have to pay a slightly higher tax rate to ensure that all of my fellow Americans receive the same health care benefits that I am lucky enough to receive than so be it.
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