The government finally came up with a Healthcare plan I like!

[The_vagabond7]

That could potentially work, and it's an idea worth looking at. I wouldn't go so far as to say it is definitely the answer, but I would hope they would at least posit it for further discussion.

Cost is the biggest problem with healthcare hands down. For a nation as modern as ours the degree to which our population has access to adequate healthcare is horrific. That doesn't mean however that the government is obligated to tax all to provide it to some. Rather I think it's biggest obligation is to find a way to make it as cheap as possible. Healthcare isn't a right anymore than electricity or plumbing, but the vast majority of the nation has both of the latter. Any civilized nation should have cheap access to these things. You still have to pay an electric bill, and you still have to pay a water bill, you don't get them for free. But the government at least has an infrastructure that makes sure you don't have to pay twenty dollars to flush your toilet.

I think the goal of this healthcare initiative shouldn't be to gaurantee healthcare for all, but to be able to make it affordable enough to all honest workers. Note that honest workers does not mean college educated, or wealthy. A person working hard for at an honest job for 9 dollars an hour is just as capable of paying his water bill as someone making 25 dollars an hour, and he's working just as hard. He should be able to get affordable health insurance without going and flipping burgers at a huge restaurant megachain, and then giving a quarter of their paycheck to pay into the insurance plan. And don't get me started on trying to buy your own health insurance these days, that is such a scam it's not even funny.

I don't think we need a welfare healthcare option for lazy people to leech off of. But right now it's just too fucking hard and too fucking expensive for the average joe to get decent health insurance or coverage. Insurance companies have too much leverage with our current system and can get away with what often times amounts to murder. Anything that can keep them in check, make them competitive, and lower costs all around is the option we should be looking at. Healthcare isn't a right, but for a civilized industrial nation our healthcare options are disgustingly poor. Our system is absolutely broken, and harmful to millions, and anyone that disagrees is just comfortable because they personally have healthcare. There does need to be reform, and soon, but it must be a careful reform and not one that just changes the problem, or does nothing to fix the causes of the problem.