My supporting points:
#1
All McCain will do is give $5,000 to you for health insurance, but I know full well that if employers are taxed when providing health insurance, they will stop covering their employees. Furthermore, the cost of yearly health insurance is more like $12,000/year. Just do the math, and anyone can see that it’s a substantial net loss for most Americans. $5,000 sounds like a nice carrot to throw out, but it’s deceptive. And I’m in really bad shape if I’m already sick with cancer in terms of getting coverage at all.
#2
If you’re working with a family to raise, how could you think it’s acceptable that nearly 50 million Americans have no health insurance. Furthermore, the #1 cause of bankruptcy is medical related and many of the people who go broke actually have plans that had inadequate coverage. I understand that if you did what you were supposed to do in life and have a great health plan, than why should you have to sacrifice anything for some smuck who doesn’t have enough coverage, I get that. But lets do the simple math.
Nearly 1 in 5 Americans don’t have health insurance, and many more don’t have adequate coverage.
Example:
In my high school class of 1997 consisting of 300 kids, if 50 of them had to be held back to repeat the 12th grade and another 60 students graduated, but did not have an adequate enough education to be able to fill out a job application, than that would be abysmal. Now maybe that group of 110 students didn’t have parents who could afford to higher an after school tutor or who knows, but shouldn’t the system be changed to get a better result? How can people just call Obama’s plan “scary”?
#3
The gov’t provides many things that are simply a right, like public safety. I mean I’m sure it would be cheaper to have no police on municipality pay rolls, but wouldn’t you have far more crimes committed? Do you just tell everyone to higher a personal bodyguard? Do you get them started off with the first $5,000 to cover the bodyguard, even if they charge 12 or 15 grand a year?
#4.
Health insurance is a financial hardship for many Americans, but the healthcare industry is one of the most profitable behind big oil and real estate. I was with American Re and know these facts to be true.
#5
Think of all of the abortions that would never happen if new mothers knew that the huge expense of healthcare would not be their burden alone.
How competitive would GM be if they were no longer under the crushing burden of high healthcare costs as opposed to Japanese, Korean and European auto makers.
Health insurance companies are a powerful special interest group , but you voters have the power!
How could Obama’s healthcare plan be such a bad thing?