Minimally I want three things from my government regarding health care reform.
One: I want laws written which protect consumers from all that has proven to be wrong with for profit health insurance companies. Insurance companies have fully demonstrated to Americans that there are scores of unethical measures they will take, against desperate people, in the name of profits.
Two: Management of the collection and distribution of a pool of dollars to ensure that no one goes without full quality, cradle to grave, health care. This may be accomplished most fairly as a progressive income tax from all Americans earning a minimum income.
Three: I want my elected representatives to have no better access to health care than I have. It’s only fair that those responsible for writing and maintaining such a sensitive group of laws, as health care legislation, be completely subject to its rules and benefits, as they are subject to all other law and governmental action.
Because individuals can only control the onset of disease so much, and the private sector continuously fails to be moral, I am of the opinion that full access to complete health care should be considered a birthright in my nation. It is only then that we can truly call ourselves civilized.
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I agree 100%. Most of the real illnesses -- cerebal palsy, heart defects, cancer, all of the mental illnesses -- do not have a profit business plan. The capitalist system cannot make one. Therefore, American citizens are left to either become indigent so they can qualify for Medicaid and live, or die in the streets outside emergency rooms like dogs. We already saw an instance of this in LA.
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