Re: Forcing the Issue: Universal Healthcare for Americans

Skeptic wrote:
> "kurtfilm" <kinderbitzin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1134426927.833521.95310@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Forcing the Issue: Universal Healthcare for Americans
> >
> > There are now 60 million uninsured Americans: 60 million Americans who
> > face financial ruin each day should they be struck with cancer or heart
> > disease or a disabling accident. Moreover, there are thousands of
> > American companies struggling, often unsuccessfully, to compete with
> > foreign competitors who are NOT saddled with huge health care costs
> > which, among developed nations, American companies alone must shoulder.
> >
> > Yet, with both of these painful realities receiving substantial
> > media-play, there doesn't seem to be any real push in Congress, and
> > certainly not in the White House, to begin the process of offering
> > Universal Health Care. It's just not on the table, and given the
> > huge debt of the federal government, and the interests of powerful
> > corporations and individuals that will be damaged should the federal
> > government ever offer Universal coverage, it doesn't seem like it
> > will be on the table anytime soon.
> >
> > Is there a solution? A way to push the issue, to "force," so to
> > speak, the Federal government to finally take on this issue? There
> > certainly is. And it rests with a handful of states. Here's the
> > scenario:
> >
> > Imagine if one of the richer states - Massachussette, New York, or
> > perhaps California (notwithstanding its own recent financial woes) bit
> > the bullet and decided to offer Universal Heathcare to its citizens.
> > Financial disaster? Let's see.
>
> I can't speak in depth for NY or CA, but MA already does. It's just not
> called that. It's called freecare. Essentially no one in MA goes without
> insurance. It's been that way for years.
>
> The uninsured number is artificially inflated. I think all children should
> be covered completely for a host of reasons. That 60 million gets smaller
> without them. Take away all the people who ELECT not to have insurance due
> to stupidity and it's smaller still. There are a lot of things that need to
> be done, but one of the first steps is a mandatory health insurance. Just
> like mandatory car insurance.

Freecare is minimal insurance available only to the poor. It is by no
means Universal coverage and does nothing for the uninsured middle
class.

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