Monday, November 23, 2009

Universal Health Care

Some health-care thoughts:
* 1) Since Ronald Reagan changed tax policy and trade policy to shift wealth from American workers to investors and foreigners, the number of Americans unable to afford health care has soared to unconscionable levels. The beneficiaries of this wealth shift should embrace universal health care as a just and affordable restoration of economic balance, one that greatly reduces worker anxiety and misery while minimally affecting worker incentive.
* 2) Conservatives complain that their taxes will increase to pay the trillion-dollar ten-year cost of universal health care, a liberal initiative to help millions of Americans. That seems fair enough, since liberal's taxes must increase to pay the trillion-dollar ten-year cost of the Iraq war, a conservative initiative that unjustly hurt millions of Iraqis and thousands of Americans.
* 3) Owing to its portability, universal health care should stimulate economic ferment, as it will enable people to move to more compatible jobs and undertake business initiatives that are now prohibitively risky.

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