Healthcare 2
Well who is going to pay for healthcare is the question. I will tell you who, we are. We allready are. Some of your own health care insurance pays for the uninsured who walk into an emergency room, as does some of your homeowners insurance, as does some of your auto insurance. And how many of you fork over three to five dollars a day for Starbucks where around twenty percent of that pays for Starbucks employees health care. I haven't even mentioned the half a billion dollars that the health care insurance industry has spent lobbying congress not to pass health care reform. That could insure a lot of uninsured people. Why is it that we spend twice the amount per person on health care than every other westernized country yet were thirty seventh in general health and fiftieth in life expectancy? Maybe because around one dollar out of every seven hundred dollars spent on health care in this country goes to the compenstion package for United Health Cares C.E.O. Is that what were all about now, getting rich off of other peoples sickness by denying them treatment. Make no mistake health care is a right. It is not a privelage and anyone who does not see it that way ought to take a look at themselves and ask if it is a right if god forbid your house was burning down that the fire department come and save your house, or if burgalars were breaking in that the police come to protect you. Those are rights, you have as a citizen not priveledges to only the the people who can afford them. Don't look now but the police and fire departments ar socialist programs, as are libraries, and primary public schools. They are non profit and work well in most instances. The problem is over my lifetime the government and the media has led us to believe that socialism and communism are one and the same and they're not. I would prefer the government stay out of everything except protecting our national security but thats not going to happen because of who is in charge, be it democrats or republicans and if they made government smaller they would be cutting off their own heads. So lets do this right. There are just some things that should not be profited on and peoples misery when they're sick should not be turning C.E.O.s into billionaires.