Jay, You might be missing the main point here. It’s about responsibility. The question is; who is responsible for your health.
Medicare and Social Security, two of the best run government bureaucracies, have a significant funding gap each year. The gap exists because of a lack of competition and to varying degrees waste, fraud and abuse. Other insurances (life, auto, home-owners, etc.) don’t suffer the same staggering annual inflation rates of health insurance.
Even if health care insurance were competitive, there is no end to how much money you can spend to keep people healthy and alive. So who makes the decision on who lives and who dies or how much care they receive?
Government really doesn’t/can’t care about the individual’s health. Government is about control, power and money. Government mandated health care insurance is about creating a giant pot of money that they can skim and payoff their corporate cronies, family and friends. All in the name of doing something good.
I worked for a senator during the Reagan administration. We spent the majority of our time fixing the problems the Carter administration created. Carter’s mission was to “help” the farmer, especially the family farmer. The net result was a ballooning subsidy program that was bankrupting the budget. Because it wasn’t sustainable, many of the subsidies were cut, which ultimately put over 80% of family farms out of business.
The scariest thing a person can hear is; We are the government, we’re here to help.
