Universal Healthcare

If there is one thing in life that I have learned it is this, the government NEVER makes things better. Actually, now that I think about it, all the government does is try to find solutions to problems that they themselves create. Seriously, look around. Tell me one program, across the board, that the government does better than any private organization. United States Postal Service? Psssh...please. So you are going to tell me that if you had a package that your life depended on whether or not it arrived on time, that you are going to trust the USPS over UPS or FedEx? Give me a freak'n break. There is no way I take that deal. What else do we have? IRS? Welfare programs? Government housing? Take a serious look at all these programs. Yea its true, government housing does help those who can't afford a place to live, to have some kind of shelter over there heads, but what if everyone were forced to live in government funded housing? People would be outraged. Then on top of that, not only do they get butt crappy housing, their taxes are raised! Do you think in any decade that flies? No bloody way!!! There would be million man marches, and boycotts from Washington to Florida. People would FREAK OUT! However, notice that when it comes to universal healthcare, no one seems to care. Once again you have the drive by liberal media just glazing over this issue. Everyone thinks that this universal health care package is the best thing to be presented since the "New Deal" (which by the way, in my opinion has crippled America, far outweighing any benefits reaped from it). Do people not realize how fast the American healthcare system will go down the drain if this gets going? Don't take my word for it, look at Canada or any other country that has a national healthcare plan. Not to mention the fact, where the is the money going to be coming from? It's not like the government works the graveyard shift or takes on a second job in order to make some more money. All of the money they get is either from us or is borrowed from China or Saudi Arabia. ALL of it. We pay for EVERYTHING. Not that we didn't have enough problems with Social Security, Medicaid, Military, and the other 9341231231 government programs to pay for. No one has given me a straight up answer as to how it would be paid without increases the snot out of the rich. (I'm not even close to being in that percentile but seriously, paying over 50% income tax in order to pay for a healthcare system that makes the elementary nurse look like a professional surgeon is just ludicrous).

I agree that insurance premiums are way too high and yes, we need to find a solution to this problem so that more of our children and our families can afford healthcare. That being said, universal healthcare is not the answer. Even making a law requiring that individuals have health insurance is a better idea. At least this way, because of the mandate, insurance companies would be competing with each just like car insurance companies do lowering premiums and deductibles that are required. At least this way the quality of healthcare doesn't decrease.

My biggest problem with universal healthcare simply put is that the quality of healthcare will DRAMATICALLY decrease. THIS IS A FACT. Think about it, if you have a national healthcare system you will have a dramatic decrease in pay for physicians. So if I was an exceptional college student who could either go to school for 4 years to a get a business degree to make six figures or go to college for 4 years to get a B.S. degree, medical school for 4 years, do an internship for 2 years, residency for 2-3 years just to get paid around $60,000....hmmm I don't know about you but if it were me, I definitely would go the business route. Not to mention the difference in student loans would be over $100,000 for physicians compared to about $10,000 for a business degree. If the best and brightest are going into other fields that will pay them accordingly, who does that leave for the medical field? Yep, you guessed it...Joe Schmo who barely got through college. Well that ought to be comforting in the O.R., knowing that your surgeon was just as dedicated to the Nintendo Wii and booze as he was to studying.

There is definitely a reason why the past two times Hillary tried to get this passed through congress it failed. People just need to open up their eyes and realize the potential impacts that all these "supposedly free/that cripple people from becoming anything in this world government programs" will have on our world. To quote the famous drink company Pepsi "WAKE UP PEOPLE!" Goodnight and remember to save trees by conserving poop!