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The administration is finding that their plan to socialize US healthcare has been poorly conceived and that the public feels it has been misrepresented to them.
Health insurance, basically, is what the Obama administration is centering its socialization plans upon, while, despite cost distortions and related problems, 87% of Americans are happy with the insurance aspect of their healthcare (Gallup poll).
Insurance is not the issue. It is the system, and the incentives within it, many created by the government. And it is not insurance industry profits. They are one-half of one percent of the US annual $2 trillion healthcare costs.
Here are 8 things that would address the bulk of what is wrong with today’s system: Read More »
Is healthcare for the healthy uninsured so unaffordable that a government takeover of health care is justified?
The propaganda drumbeat continues with great conviction that health insurance is so expensive that 40-50 million Americans cannot afford it. Since most Americans seem to be able to afford cell phones, laptops, iPods and cable TV, it would seem they can probably afford health insurance.
Here is an example on how affordable health coverage can be, this time using the Blue Cross Blue Shield website for the state of Georgia and getting a quote for a 25-year old male living in Atlanta. Read this and decide for yourself if the government needs to take over the healthcare system.
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Do you want to depend upon and be beholden to foreign countries for the financing of our on-going federal debt?
If you are undecided, here is one way to consider the question: if we accept huge deficit spending as part of America’s governance, and are dependent for that upon the whole world, on a daily basis, with 50% of the funding coming from China and Japan, do you think we are better or worse off?
In my view, we are worse off in many direct and indirect ways. But can we achieve a federal budget with a small amount or no amount of debt? Absolutely, and rather painlessly. And looking at our country’s finances is rather simple. Here it is.
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