In a radical attempt to ensure healthcare to all Americans, the Senate has discovered a way to shove it down our throats. Apparently, before their week long July 4th break, the Senate constructed a bill that will fine more than $1,000 to anyone who refuses to purchase medical coverage under the government over hall.
This bill was fashioned to mirror Massachusetts’s approach to healthcare coverage. Under said plan individuals would pay a fine of about $1,000, but under the federal legislation families would pay extra.
This is similar to the law that requires motorists to obtain auto insurance. The difference is… you have a choice on whether to own a vehicle or not; ignoring the fact that both are unjust. There is no choice of not having health. For as long as one may have life there is also a level of health, good or bad, and as long as you have a health you must pay for health coverage. Therefore if you are a living citizen you are forced to attribute to the massive over hall.
To be fair, yet still outraged, there will be subsidies for poor and middle-class families provided by the government, and the fines are promised to be arranged to at least half the amount of basic medical coverage. It doesn’t change a thing! Even with subsidies, those who rightly refuse to pay are fined nonetheless, and not to mention, just because it’s half off doesn’t make it affordable, half of 2,000 is still 1,000!
True, healthcare for all Americans sounds like the perfect way to prevent illness, restore trust in government, and protect the country, but where do you see any of our freedom. The only choice I see here is for those who can afford choice. I challenge our government to restore freedom to its citizens; rather than removing the right to live free, both figuratively and financially!
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Senate fine's people refusing health coverage
'Health Insurance' is a term that should be banned, obviously we are a long way from being able to 'insure' good health as it implies. The people trying to sell anything else are bound by truth in advertising laws, why not insurers? The product name needs to be changed to "Limited Medical Coverage."
The government version of this is 'Universal Health Care' which is not quite as misleading, but also needs a limited inserted.
If more people accepted the limitations of limited resources in this debate we would be more likely to arrive at a more ideal solution. Those in favor expect to get the best of care financed by the government. Those opposed realize that this would be incredibly expensive if not impossible. The government, state and federal, and insured patients ALREADY pay for a limited amount of care for those unable to pay because of an unfunded mandate for emergency care.
A more realistic goal for Health Care reform (or over haul) would be to establish a level of free or affordable care which was available to all, thus eliminating the burden of qualification, and which disallowed patient lawsuits, thus eliminating the burden of malpractice insurance and defensive medicine.
These simple steps could vastly expand coverage by eliminating indirect billing (cost of non-paying patients added to paying patients bills), allowing removal of a great deal of routine care from lower cost private plans, and vastly improve public health and quality of care by eliminating red tape. All without increasing taxpayers costs. This minimum care could be increased as politicians found the means to fund additional treatments.
Private insurers could still sell coverage for more advanced and expensive care. Thus keeping the best care in the US in its' current place as the best in the world.
All Universal Health Care is, by necessity rationed. Ignoring this reality and thereby driving all or nearly all customers into a government plan could also have the effect of ruining the 'Doctor magnet' effect we currently enjoy here in the USA. If fewer foreign doctors choose to practice here, and even begin to leave we will have a very hard time even maintaining our current level of care.
Requiring coverage to be purchased by all does appear to be the direction that our corporatist government is headed.
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
- Gerald Ford