Universal Health-care
It has a been a busy holiday season. The universal health-care bill made its was through the senate aid by some rather dubious sounding deals. Now I may not be a smart man but one thing I have learned is that if it's a good deal today, it will still be a good deal tomorrow. The only reason to rush a good deal is usually because people want you to commit before you scratch the veneer and discover the truth, it isn't really a good deal. Rushing the Health-care bill through in the wee hours of Christmas Eve only adds to my suspicion and distrust of a bill that I doubt many who voted have even read.
Interestingly most of the polls I have seen ask if we should make affordable health-care available to all Americans. Well heck yeah, that sounds good to me, but it does not mean that universal health-care is the answer. Let me remind you that the government, however well intentioned, already took on the job of providing “Universal Retirement” otherwise known as Social Security and by all accounts the program will be bankrupt this decade despite the fact that all recipients have presumably been making payment over their working lifetime. So in the face of one large social program failing the government proposes to institute yet another program which, I would not be surprised to discover, may provide them with enough cash flow to again borrow from Peter to pay Paul and create another inevitable problem for future generations.
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