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Government Healthcare for 2010

Sat Feb 20, 2010 12:28 PM EST
health, insurance, healthcare, state, federal, option
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Government healthcare insurance sounds tough to manage, too expensive. We can decide the outcome after congress fashions something. Make both parties draw up a healthcare bill.

Here is an answer to the healthcare debate. The first vote by the people will decide the option.

Sign up in each state if you want state controlled healthcare insurance, federal healthcare insurance, or private healthcare insurance.

Federal healthcare insurance will be a stand alone policy for catastrophic emergencies. Everyone is covered.
Fifty dollars per year will be the cost for adults. Employers pay an equal amount for each employee. Twenty dollars for children over the age of 12. Free admission for babies up to 12 years of age is the way it should be.

Option Two

Put it to a vote by the people in each state. The election in 2010 can be the big test. Voting for it in the next election is the only fair way of putting the healthcare insurance decision in the people's hands.

Offering catastrophic insurance and emergency room treatment should be the very first method of providing federal healthcare insurance. It could be the proving ground that the public needs.

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Voting will not work because (at least?) 80% of the population gets their coverage from their employer. Some of them are ticked because their employers are now requiring contributions from their pockets, but as a whole, their eyes have not been opened and their minds are closed like steel traps. Until they lose their jobs (IF) or lose their coverage entirely, they will be blind and cannot see. Unless they are very young and have never sneezed, they will be in for the rudest of awakenings when they go through underwriting in an attempt to obtain private insurance. They will have their socks shocked off when they see the astronomical premiums and learn how easy it is for the greedy insurers to get out of paying the hard-earned dollars they willingly hand over to the insurers to make them rich.

The 46 million uninsured are the minority. The horror stories of Americans that suffer and die due to lack of healthcare mean nothing to those who are comfortable and believe they are invincible and will always be that way. Sadly, most members of the oppositional political party claim to be Christians. Yet they care NOT.

A VERY brief search found that the history of job-based insurance coverage was an "accident" of WW II. There was a shortage of workers and caps were placed on wages. Therefore, in order to attract workers, health benefits were added...and the rest is history. So now, WHY...when we actually have a shortage of JOBS rather than workers, do things remain the same? WHY do people not question the rationale of doing something simply because it has always been done? Because people are dumb, blind sheep.

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