The continuing case for Universal Health Care

The immoral system of “profit” based health care in the United States is contrary to civilized norms in any other industrialized country.

Each year in the United States, the health care insurance industry rakes in approximately 60 billion dollars in profits.
These profits, this money, paid by people for health insurance is above and beyond the needs of every
single person currently uninsured in the USA today.

If a “for profit” health care system is predicated on its ability to make money, they would want those of us lucky enough to actually have and afford health insurance to be either healthy or dead.
Health “care” is not their goal.
In other words, if their “compassion” for our illnesses or injuries is limited to their profit or loss statement, than the people in such a barbaric system are at the mercy of bureaucrats.
Which is the supposed reason they rally against a single payer, Universal health care system in the first place.

A single payer universal health care system for the United States would insure every person in the USA.
A universal health care program in the United States would not limit people to where or which doctor they could go to.
A single payer universal health care system would ensure that the monies paid by people for health care would go......for health care !
Universal health care saves costs simply by being available and serves as preventative medicine. Prevention is certainly more cost effective than retro-active treatment and care.

Universal health care would return the decision making power to those that should have it. The health care professionals and their patients. Eliminating the billions of dollars wasted on insurance industry salaries and their subsequent profits.

Finally, a single payer, universal health care system is a “payment” system, not a health care delivery system.
For profit, managed health care is immoral for a multitude of reasons, not least of which is because health care is not a commodity people shop for. By definition, a third party (insurance companies) for “profit” health care systems' goal is profit, NOT providing health care.

In every industrialized, civilized country in the world, health care is a “right” by virtue of being a person.
If in the United States, every “person”, not citizen, but “person” is entitled to an an attorney whether or not they can afford one, than why would people who are not under suspicion of committing a crime be denied health care.

The United States has the best health care in the world, yet it means very little when the populace has no access to it. Some would argue that universal health care is socialized medicine. Well, it is.

But what is wrong with having public schools or public libraries or the military? All of these things can be classified as “socialized” programs.
No one seems to have a problem with paying for car insurance because it is the law, but we as a society cant seem to pool our tax money to insure all of our people? It makes no sense.

It is time the United States joins the civilized world, its people and leaders need to realize that being a part of this country means contributing to the society in which they are a part.

A country in which ...... "For the people, by the people” means “them” the people as much as it means “me” the people !

“Born in liberty” does not mean that the founding fathers ever meant its future citizens to ... "live in abject poverty” or to “die in neglect.”