Cut costs! Cut down the amount of BS red tape and administration that clog the system (this goes for the schools too), get the money into the hands of the people that need it to make things work. I would be all for universal health care if I was convinced the government would do a good job of it, I just am not sure they will. I actually would be fine with paying more taxes if I knew every American was getting health care. Heck, between my premiums and copays per month I pay 10% of my wages towards health care as it is. If the gubment could make it so I pay that to them and everyone gets good, efficient health care and levels the playing field a bit, I'm all for it.
One of the major problems a lot of people that look at the numbers forget is that it is not a level playing field. Everything is rather easy for me, I'm a white kid that grew up middle class, my parents were hard workers, I had a really good role model. What if that wasn't the case? What if my dad was an alchololic? The only male 'role models' that were around were thugs? But at the same time I was a fundementally decent kid with a 180 IQ and the ability to diagnose an illness just by looking at the person. But none of that matters because none of my mothers jobs supply health care she could afford so I die of an undiagnosed (except by me of course) illness that my mom game me some Tylenol for because she couldn't afford to bring me to the ER. I don't think that we need to support everyone monitarily for everything, but sometimes people need a little help to get to the same point where I started from. Or do we just give up on the 50 million people without healthcare because they "just need to work harder"? We need something! Maybe not universal, but someone needs to shake things up and get the costs down! Damn, I'm all worked up now! Sorry everyone!
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