Universal Healthcare & Unicorns: Both Very Beautiful Creators

So watching the Democrat National Convention, I do see how and why it’s very en vogue to be a liberal democrat.  It brings me back to my childhood, believing, without a shadow of a doubt that I could and would save the world.  The liberal talking points are quite dramatic and easy to “believe” in.  The call for change, especially in a rough economic environment is a very catchy and easy to buy into.  They want to save the world from global warming.  They want EVERYONE to have health care.  They want to protect the rights of every person and give everyone a fair shot at everything America has to offer.  They want to produce clean and safe energy that will create jobs and save the environment.

And while in and of themselves, all these things are great ideas, they extremely difficult, if not impossible to truly accomplish.  They live in the world of fairy tales and learned from an education system teaching to the lowest common denominator.    They see their causes through utopian eyes without the lens of reality highlighting the flaws and cracks within their plans.  And while I am fairly confident that many of the potential issues with their policies have been carefully studied and  analyzed by the leaders of the liberal movement, I don’t think that they everyday bleeding-heart liberal, let alone moderates and conservatives, would agree with these policies if they really considered the potential ramifications.

So in the true American Education spirit, I will spoon feed you “the rest of the story”.  This is part one of a multipart series continued throughout the 2008 presidential election.

Universal Healthcare
Universal Healthcare is the issue at the heart of Barack Obama’s presidential platform, and even more of a part of Hillary Clinton’s failed agenda.  This is one of the most widely accepted, mainstream talking points for the democrats.  The cost of health care is on the minds of American’s from all walks of life and from all races, classes, and geographic locations.  I don’t think anyone who isn’t directly profiting from the current system would disagree that something needs to be done.

One thing we always have to consider:  We are in a crisis for a reason.  We didn’t just decide one day that hospitals were going to start charging thousands and thousands of dollars for procedures.  We don’t have our best and brightest students in America spending 8 years at the finest higher-education institutions learning the art of medicine because they love making a difference in people’s life.   If so, there wouldn’t be a shortage of teachers and a gluttony of lawyers.

If you’re wondering what a government funded healthcare system might look like, for your next surgical procedure, check into your local VA hospital.  And this isn’t meant to knock VA hospitals or the great men and women who work there, as they are working with limited resources, limited funds, and are handicapped by their limitations.

If you think emergency rooms are painfully slow now, wait till you have another 47,000,000 Americans can start using the services without worrying about a hefty bill coming the next month.

And consider this.  Right now, the government is paying very little in terms of healthcare.  There are over 202,000,000 Americans who HAVE private health care.  Meaning 202 MILLION Americans are either paying for health care or their companies are paying for health care.  And the reason the other 47 MILLION American’s don’t have it is because a.) they don’t have a job that provides it and b.) they can’t (or choose not to) afford it.  So it’s going to be a huge stretch to think that if Universal Healthcare is achieved that the people who would be benefiting most from it would be footing the bill.  Those 47 million new healthcare recipients must be paid for somehow.  There’s really only two ways to do it:  Raise taxes or lower the cost of healthcare.  Neither of those options are beneficial to the 202 Million American’s who have worked hard to ensure they have their families covered.

Universal Healthcare is made out to benefit the growing middle class, giving hard working people who can’t get health insurance a chance to be happy and healthy.  And while there is a fraction of the hard working middle class that Universal Healthcare would make you believe would undoubtedly benefit, yet no one is considering that this middle class that can’t take an additional $400 a month out of their check for health insurance won’t be able to pay the additional taxes that would accompany paying for the 250,000,000 additional American’s to the government’s tab!

So is Universal Healthcare really the best option for your circumstance?  Universal Healthcare is just a vehicle to get a highly lucrative industry under the control of the government.  What liberals fail to understand is if there was a better alternative to the insurance companies, someone would be doing it privately.

And there are hundreds of alternatives to Universal Healthcare that would a.) keep the medical field out of the control of the government (because they have a fairly poor record of doing ANYTHING right… see education, public) and b.) give American’s OPTIONS!  Nothing in this world is free. We are free to prioritize in whatever way we desire.  There are (failed) programs in place to give medical care to the poor, children, and the elderly.

There is a system already in place that is designed to help those who need medical care to have it provided.  Why aren’t we focusing on revamping and fixing these obviously broken programs?  Why aren’t we redefining who needs help rather than using old formulas and outdated services?  Mostly because they were designed and implemented by the same group of people who are now charged with “fixing” the greatest medical community in the world.  I just pray they don’t get the chance.