So, I have individual discussions with most of you about politics here and there, but never do I have the chance to do it in group discussion. I am quite interested in having a discussion on issues like universal health care, particularly because we are all at very different stages in needs of health care.
I'm interested in how you all get your insurance, how you would feel if the government provided that insurance, and to what extent you feel it is the government's responsibility to ensure we have adequate health care.
As for me and my house, I think it is fine to requrie that all people have insurance, even if that insurance comes from the government. I'm not a big tax person and I very much dislike big government, so such a plan should not require any extra spending. What I am failling to understand is how a plan for universal health care would really fix medicare and medicaid. It seems to me as though medicare and medicaid is in basic function insurance for those who can't afford it. Universal health care seems to simply expand the existing program with some changed requirements. That being said, it seems as though that would just cost more mony and accomplish the same things. Am I right? or does somebody have extra light to shed on the situation?
