I'm sorry I try my best not to spend to much time on politics because it never seems to fail to divide people regardless of what side you're on. But on my walk several questions popped in my head I had to share. As a disclaimer I'm no political guru so, know this is written in pure opinion.
The biggest debate on the health care issue is people equating socialism with providing great health care services to ALL Americans. I hear people saying they do not want to fund some people's bad decisions. "It verges on socialism" they say "and we will have equal access to resources. Those of us who have worked hard will have to fork over our hard earned money to those who sit and do nothing."
I disagree, what if we said that on all aspects of American life that "verge" on Socialism? We could say we don't want to have to pay for the US postal service to deliver our mail. We could use FedEx or UPS and allow competition to form and we can get mail at the speed we want. We could say why should we have to pay for older people's Medicare? They lived long enough, they should have planed for their later years. Why even pay for policemen? we can all get guns and protect ourselves or we can each get private security. Why even have libraries? the Internet works or everyone can buy a Kindle if they really want to read.
As absurd as these questions I pose, why shouldn't all Americans get good health care? Why should someone like me have to pay triple in insurance because I chose to follow a dream? Why even after paying that do I have to fight with an insurance company on something they told me was covered 2 months ago? I hope we stop with this greed mentality of me me me and realize we are all one step away from being on the other side of the track.
