I don't understand all the angst about single payer universal health care. Seems to me a lot of businesses would be overjoyed to have the health insurance monkey off their backs. I know I'd hire if I didn't have to deal with it. As a business owner you obviously know how expensive providing health care to your employers is.
Not to mention the resulting boon to the economy if we were to simply implement a single payer system, such as Medicare For All. (which btw was the original intent for Medicare) People on average would have more disposable income due to the savings realized from not having to pay high insurance premiums. Not only would employers be free of the hassles associated with providing insurance, they would be able to hire more employees, as well as pay higher wages. People would no longer be job locked in order to receive healthcare. Entrepreneurs would be free to quit their jobs and explore their options without fear of losing healthcare. Many could retire before reaching the age of Medicare eligibility, thereby freeing up jobs for others. More people would seek medical care, thereby increasing the amount of jobs in the medical profession, etc, etc, etc...........The multiplier effect on the economy would be tremendous.
Medicare currently has administrative costs of about 4% compared to the insurance companies costs of 20% - 40%. Therefore the elimination of profits in the medical insurance sector alone would produce a very significant overall savings, and medical providers would realize a significant reduction of costs associated with billing and collection. As in other countries with single payer systems price controls would produce savings as well........... It's painfully obvious that we are being screwed when we are paying $4,000 for a CTscan which can be had in Mexico for $75............. No doubt, the insurance and healthcare industries are in collusion.
The most important reason for a healthcare plan would be just knowing that all of us and our families and friends would not have to be concerned about losing everything or not being able to get needed treatment in the case of injury or illness. (Over 50% of bankruptcies in the US are due to medical costs, and many of these people have insurance) And while living in the richest country in the world it really p**s’s me off when I hear of a fundraiser to collect money to pay for a little girl’s heart operation.
Any form of governance that does not provide for the affordable and available health care, welfare, safety, and education of it’s citizens is sorely lacking, for these are the building blocks of a civil and prosperous society.
Currently, the 8 most prosperous, safest, freest countries in the world are governed with a strong social agenda.......... Google it!
BTW, the USA
IS a product of socialism, and a few examples of
OUR social constructs are: Ben Franklin’s Post Office, which built this nations economy..... Abe Lincoln’s national railroad..... FDR’s National and State parks, along with SSI, and rural telephone and electricity...... JFK’s NASA..... Eisenhower’s federal highway system....... Police and fire protection, along with the courts system..... And among many more of our social constructs is the largest social construct the world has ever seen, the US military.
Sorry 'bout the long post, but that's about as short as I could summarize.
