Sunday, February 12, 2017

Single Payer Government Funded Healthcare Is "Pro-life"

I recently read a Gallup poll from last year that said the 58% of Americans support "Replacing the ACA with a federally funded healthcare program providing insurance for all Americans" to 37% who oppose it. 55% of Republicans oppose it. Another Gallup poll that said that about 69% of republicans are "pro life". So there is probably a lot of overlap in these two groups. The question I must raise is "How can a person consider him/herself "pro-life", while not believing that all people have the right to health care?" If you are not insured and get cancer, is your life worth less than a fetus in the womb? Why not fight for their lives too? It's more than apparent that the current system works against people being able to afford health care. It needs to change and the republicans have the power to change it, but they won't because of big donor contributions to their campaigns from the insurance and drug industries. Some of the Democrats are in bed with these industries too but they're not the majority and have less power anyway. But more of them are for universal healthcare. So why isn't the current healthcare system working? Price gouging. The insurance companies, drug companies and even hospitals will not stop price gouging on their own. Even while these practices are hurting and even killing people who can't afford to pay for medication or services, they are making record profits, so it works for them. Plus they own so many politicians. These politicians keep getting re-elected because of the money coming from these industries. It's a terrible cycle that has to stop. So what do we do? Start with getting these politicians out of office. They are not working for the interests of the people. People need to elect the people who say "no" to these types of donations so they can answer to the people. If single payer government funded health care were law, we would have power to negotiate prices. The costs of these services and drugs would be lower so the cost to the tax payers would be lower. People who get these benefits from their employer, could be given a raise with the amount that the costs will go down for the employer not having to pay for those benefits. There might be tax increases but since health care costs would be less, it would even out. It's been too long that Americans have had no say in our health care. We have to use our representatives to push for the rights of the people over the health care industry. If they were truly "pro-life", they would.

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