Those who are happy with the health insurance they have from their employer and consequently oppose universal health care are simply ill-informed and some than a little foolish. Here are facts that they are filing to take into account:
The USA is the ONLY industrialized country in the entire world which does NOT have a functioning system of universal healthcare which provides good service at lower cost of the individual, the family, and the country. ANYONE who questions our ability to create and successfully mange such a system is, in effect, questioning the intelligence and competence of the American people.
A universal healthcare system would (a) have no premiums, co-pays, personal costs for lab work, procedures, or medical equipment, no huge unexpected costs. There will be no bankruptcies caused by huge medical costs (now around 500,000 per year). The costs to employing business and to state and federal governments will be much, much lower than medical costs are today.
While people may be happy with the employer-provided health insure today. Those covered by that insurance are either ignorant of, or are choosing to ignore important facts. There is ongoing collusion b between the health insurance companies, hospitals, medical labs, physicians’ groups, medical equipment provides, drug companies and the insurance companies. The insurance companies allow all of the service providers to artificially inflate their prices, and simply pass those gouging prices on to the employers and to employees, themselves. And, they add on large additional costs to provide a large profit margin for themselves. The focus is on ensuring that everybody in the chain gets financially well in the process.
The costs of universal healthcare would cut out all of those artificially inflated costs and make good healthcare truly available to all people. Businesses will benefit in having fewer employee work hours lost to illness, and from not having to create an internal bureaucracy to negotiate and manage healthcare. Unions and employee organizations would benefit by getting rid of healthcare negotiation, and focusing entirely on wages and salaries, working conditions, and retirement systems. That should result in higher salaries and wages.
Yes, somebody is going to have to pay for universal healthcare. Most countries do it by charging a fee or tax of around &.0 percent of all income (not just wages and salaries) from the citizen, and a matching 7.0 percent of salaries and wages paid out by employers. That fee to the citizen in most countries has a cap on the annual income level, such as $250,000 Yes. People would have to pay something—nothing is free. But, the overall costs to people, companies, and nation would be SIGNIFICANTLY lower than current costs today.
People can be wary of universal healthcare due to unethical demagogues trying to attach a negative label, such as “socialism” to it. And, they can choose to just listen to partisan propaganda and not do their homework to obtain the facts. But anyone who chooses to do that is simply being self-destructively foolish.