President Obama’s public health insurance option is a good way to lower privatized health insurance. Why is this?
One: If the federal government starts taking over health insurance for all (the poor, who cannot afford private health insurance; small businesses; up to the mega corporations and even the wealthy), the privatized health corporation would fail. If indeed this is part of President Obama’s plan to stimulate lower and affordable prices for everyone’s health insurance, I am still somewhat against it.
Two: I have studied and listened to others in my travels, who talk about the wonderful care their governments’ health insurance gives them. It is amazing.
Three: The one thing that is not appealing when listening to the folks from other countries is the tax costs they pay. All agree, though, it is worth it in the long run.
What it comes down to is making a national health plan work for everyone in our nation to make us as great as we like to think ourselves to be without costing everyone an arm and a leg, tax-wise. As of now, we do not even begin to have a working national health plan compared to any of the other industrialized nations around the world. For this reason, amongst many, people laugh at us for saying we are the greatest.
This article appears in Apr 16-23, 2009.