Socialst Doomsday Healthcare

Today I want to talk about the current attempts to create a public health care service (PHS) in the United States of America. Like Yin and Yang, Black and White, Republicans and Democrats, Capitalists and Socialists, there are two groups in the discussion around the PHS: The Supporters and the OMG-We-All-Going-To-Die-When-This-Piece-Of-Socialism-Comes-True-Group.

What bothers me, is the way how the discussion is lead. The supporters bring there arguments, why it would be good for the community. E.g. poor people have at least a basic health covering. The opposition however argues against the plan. Their arguments are, you will lose your doctor or this is what the socialists always wanted or an enormous bureaucratic machine would stand between the you and your doctor and the best one you are going to die (see video at the bottom).

It should be clear for everyone with the slightest idea of politics, that the current private health insurers are working against the PHS. Why? Easy, because a public insurer has no need to create any profit and is therefore more efficient than a private insurer. This means that the public insurer can provide health care at lower cost and would by that be a real danger for the private insurers.

The front between supporters and opposition seams to be drawn sharp between Democrats and Republicans. I have to ask, why would any official elected representative work against the people who elected them? Is it really blind ideology? Do they take money from the insurers? Why would people even belief the crap they are telling?

Almost 20 years after the breakdown of the soviet union, the people still fear the ominous thread of socialism that much, that when anybody only mention this word, people start running around waving there arms in the air and scream, “Apocalypse! The doomsday is here! They finally got us!”.

A real socialistic insurance would have everybody is insured by force at the one public provider. The fee is would be calculated by ones income, more income more pay. The hospitals would get all there money from the state and the patient has to pay nothing. The hospitals would still be very bad equipped cause the money is drained away by the political system.

The PHC is far away from these good and bad sides. It seems to be only an alternative for not too wealthy people to get insured. The competition between the public insurer and the private ones will probably make all insurance cheaper. That would be a good thing for all the people. So try to consider it and don’t judge it be the flowcharts of Republicans.