Now is the time.
Now that we have solid Democratic Congress and a Democratic President I have two words: National Healthcare. National Healthcare is the one thing the government can do that that would go the furthest in restoring the troubled economy. Imagine entrepreneurs freed from the need to calculate health insurance costs into their business plans. Imagine General Motors freed from their overwhelming healthcare obligations and able to compete on an even footing with their foreign competitors. Imagine the ability of workers to improve their careers by switching jobs or starting businesses without having to take into consideration the loss of their current healthcare benefits. Imagine everyone being in the best of health, productive and free of the angst of health cost concerns.
Now is the time. We may not get another opportunity to do this for another fifty years. Mr. Obama has not expressed any desire for a sweeping single payer national health care system that covers all. He has said, however, that he is willing to listen to the people. We have to take him at his word and tell him what we want and what we want is national healthcare.
There is not a county who did not have to overcome the most strenuous objections of conservative opponents prior to establishing national health care in their societies. Never the less, once established and no matter how flawed, they are so popular it would be almost impossible, politically for these programs to be removed in the countries they are established.
The fact that we have postponed the establishment of national healthcare for fifty years gives us the opportunity to study the plans in place in other countries. Learning what works and what doesn’t, avoiding pitfalls, and adapting proven concepts to our unique culture should enable us to create the best of all national health care plans in the world.
We have to strike while the iron is hot. There is nothing that would improve the productivity of our workforce more. There is nothing that would be a greater stimulation to entrepreneurs. There is nothing that would further enable business to compete on the world stage. There is nothing that would promote the greatest health for the most people in the most efficient way than national healthcare. Let’s do it.
Now is the time. We may not get another opportunity to do this for another fifty years. Mr. Obama has not expressed any desire for a sweeping single payer national health care system that covers all. He has said, however, that he is willing to listen to the people. We have to take him at his word and tell him what we want and what we want is national healthcare.
There is not a county who did not have to overcome the most strenuous objections of conservative opponents prior to establishing national health care in their societies. Never the less, once established and no matter how flawed, they are so popular it would be almost impossible, politically for these programs to be removed in the countries they are established.
The fact that we have postponed the establishment of national healthcare for fifty years gives us the opportunity to study the plans in place in other countries. Learning what works and what doesn’t, avoiding pitfalls, and adapting proven concepts to our unique culture should enable us to create the best of all national health care plans in the world.
We have to strike while the iron is hot. There is nothing that would improve the productivity of our workforce more. There is nothing that would be a greater stimulation to entrepreneurs. There is nothing that would further enable business to compete on the world stage. There is nothing that would promote the greatest health for the most people in the most efficient way than national healthcare. Let’s do it.