To start, America operates as a mixed economy having funded many socialist programs with our tax dollars, so stop saying you hate socialism.
Americans hate specific socialism initiatives. That is, Americans hate socialism and the programs with socialist tendencies when they don't need it to make their personal status and lives better. PERIOD!
Generally, Anti-socialism is just simple greed and selfishness given the United States overall wealth and riches.
Don't DARE talk about the cost of the Single Payer Healthcare System for Americans until you determine to REGULATE, MANAGE, and CONTROL the insurance industry in health care, drug companies relative to near and long term health, and for-profit hospitals. The lobbyists for these three any-sayers fighting against legal limits on their profits are the true culprits in the formula the establish American's RIGHT to UNIVERSAL health care coverage.
There are so many reasons to establish a US Single Payer System, like Congress and Americans seeming not acknowledging the immorality of, even accepting and supporting the rich vs poor divide in health care quality and overall ease of access for AMERICANs! That is not what true America is about
The "cost" Paul Ryan fears is lower profits for these three culprits in increasing health care costs, and business costs. Primarily though, it is the Big Three dictating the rules. A Single Payer System will not hurt small businesses so much that the United States Gov can't choose to balance "security" (Military-Industrial Cabal) with the benefits of a country of HEALTHY, well cared for and nurtured, Americans!
We direct and control the apparent #1 priority, "security" (DoD, Homeland Security, FBI, CIA, etc.), and we regulate banks and money through the Fed, so how is it we choose to let health care run on its own?
How can anyone argue these points in an honest manner with integrity?
The Single Payer system needs to REGULATE the prime movers in health care costs.
Americans, the PEOPLE are the users, not the providers of heath care and should not be "regulated." People are advised how to contribute to their health care, and the rest is dependent on their genes, good luck, living outside crime zones in some cases, and their use of whatever healthcare advice they are given or can find on their own via Google.
No one can blame people for poor health. THAT is wrong and a sin! Republicans have blamed fat people for being fat, and sick people or the poor for bad health care CHOICES. Choices are not always up to the people!
Those Republicans who blame people for bad choices in health care have made bad choices in health care too, I guarantee it. NO ONE IS PERFECT.
It is not reasonable, sane, or logical to REQUIRE people to be healthy. Health care is essential to HELP people be healthy. It doesn't always operate the opposite way, where people dictate their health care.
Ludicrous thinking leads to ludicrous solutions.
OK, some people do a bad job taking care of themselves. Notwithstanding the poor job some people do taking care of themselves, everyone should get coverage under the Single Payer system, EVERYONE. That is how America is supposed to work.
Here is the regulation part of theSingle Payer system: 1. establish insurance rates, l
2. set maximum drug prices, and
3. determine a ceiling on for-profit hospital profits.
Admittedly civilian management" of defense / security in America is not perfect, but NO government enterprise is perfect. They are all vulnerable to self-serving ass h*les who are corrupt morally and / or psychologically.
It is time we recognize health comes inextricably with security, but definitely health comes first!
America deserves capitalism with a conscience. WE have been through the "American Holocaust / Slaughter," slavery where we dehumanized humans, and putting Japanese Americans in concentration camps in WWII. It is time to turn a page on all that with something truly worth while, a plan totally non-Paul Ryan-esque.
Profits with a conscience is acceptable.
"Capitalism, socialism or a mixed economy"
By Raymond HortonFinancial Fundamentals Published 8:00 a.m. CT Oct. 12, 2014
"The United States appears to be moving toward a mixed economy."
