On Dec 20, 3:47 pm, "JT" wrote:
I see both sides, however, someone is going to have to pay for universal
health care and it will be the guy/gal working for a living. That troubles
me...

The fact is, you're already paying for it. We already have universal
health care; but we pay for a bad system in stupid ways. Every time
a poor or uninsured person shows up at the ER with a seriously
progressed condition, you're paying thousands to deal with that
through your tax dollars when you could have paid significantly less
to give them the insurance they'd need to see a doctor when it was
something minor. When a mother can't go to work because her child is
sick, you're paying for that. When kids miss school due to
preventable illnesses, you're paying for the consequences of that.

The difference is that the public gets to enjoy the illusion it's not
socialized medicine just because we don't pay it directly or call a
spade a spade; but we pay for it through lost productivity, crime,
welfare, Medicare, Medicaid, and dozens of other costly consequences
of people not getting the medical care they need.

Meanwhile, the medical and pharmaceutical industries get to keep
cashing in. *That* should trouble you.

Joe F.