Why is Universal Health Insurance a Right?
One of the major topics for some Presidential candidates has been Health Insurance and on September 9 of last year, Common Sense Authors posted an article titled The Universal Health Insurance Scam in an attempt to shed some clarity on the numbers thrown around by politicians, the media and so called experts. We here at Consider Common Sense have generally speaking no problem with the fact that this issue is being talked about but we have serious questions as to the content of this debate. Everybody should and does know that health care costs are spiraling out of control, premiums are going up and up and everything associated with health care rises accordingly.
What we have a problem with is the pandering by the Democrat candidates who now promise to bring Universal Health Care to America, framing it in such a way that it is a right to have health care coverage. And the people just eat it up and love it, apparently. But that is really not true. By promising Universal Heath care for all people in this country, the candidates are plain and simply pandering to the masses and they call it ‘Change’. To be even more convincing, the candidates present some dollar amounts, ranging from 80 to 150 billion dollars annually for this entitlement program, and justify the expense by comparing it with the costs of the war in Iraq which is currently much higher.
According to them, the Presidential wanna-bees, not only is Universal Heath Care a necessity, it is a Right, if not a birthright for all people to have! After all, we have to take care of the sick, the poor, the needy and so on, and who better to take on this task than the government. What is shameful about all of this is the liberal mainstream media who do not dare question its legitimacy; instead they praise the presidential panderers for their courage to find solutions to one of America’s major crises. They proclaim this is the change America needs. And if they agree with it, write about it in the print media and talk about it on television on a constant basis, the average person will believe it after a while and accept it as fact.
Both Senators Clinton and Obama agree on this right to health care for all and their programs differ only minutely as to the details. Clinton wants to make coverage mandatory for all even for those individuals who do not want health insurance and she will have an enforcement mechanism for compliance that could even involve garnishing wages. In comparison, Barack Obama does not want to go that far and gets promptly criticized by Hillary Clinton that his plan leaves about 15 million people uninsured. This could be compared to two ‘Snake-oil’ salesmen who promise that their tonics would heal all people of all their ailments. Each Salesperson believes that his or her product is superior to the other’s but they both agree that it will conquer all illnesses and is also a right to have!
Now then, if anybody thinks that Universal Health care is the solution to one of Americas major problems, we disagree and here is our reason why we believe that: Notwithstanding the current numbers being floated around by the two candidates as to the costs, there should be absolutely no doubt in anybody’s mind that these numbers are just tools to make the program more palatable for us all at this time. By the time Congress gets through with this, if it ever will do so, the bill, let’s call it The Comprehensive Universal Health Care Act, sent to whoever is President for his or her signature will be several times larger than the numbers that we hear now from the candidates. And these numbers will grow annually as every other entitlement program does that we have on the books now, it will be included in this law by Congress, no question about it.
To us here, this entire matter is being presented in totally absurd terms: What should be addressed first and foremost is the existing problem of rising health care costs. Now, either this issue is too hard to tackle by Congress in that it would mean making some very tough decisions and choices that could hurt re-election chances by punishing potential future campaign donors or it is the desire of our elected officials in Washington D.C. to put more power under their jurisdictions by providing universal health care/insurance. Anybody who knows even just a little about economics is aware that competition brings cost down, not monopolizing the program. We all know this to be the truth and unquestionably factual. How many times have we all experienced that when a new product comes on the market, it costs a lot but within a short time when competition enters the market, the costs go down significantly!
Now then, why would anybody in their right mind even consider monopolizing the health care industry? Make it more competitive and the costs will go down! Now then, why is it that the two candidates on the Democrat side running to be our next President are going totally in the opposite direction? Even by presenting it under the devious assumption that it is a right for everybody to have health care in America does not make it right. It is deceptive and pandering at the most cynical and unscrupulous level. To ask for votes from people by making promises of this magnitude is diabolical in our opinion! It should be a disqualifier for them! They are not fit to be President of this great country of ours.
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