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opinion:
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Health care needs
work
Webster's Dictionary
defines socialism as "A theory of the ownership and operation
of the means of production and distribution from society, with
all members sharing in the work and the products." This
definition has very little negativity, if any, attached to it.
However, the term socialism has always been a dirty word in
our greedy capitalist world.
Hence, socialized medicine has never taken off as a concept
in America, because it includes a form of the word socialism.
Therefore, the term Universal Health Care has been adopted,
but the concept has still not attained any serious consideration.
In fact, Bill Bradley used it as one of his platforms when he
sought election as the Democratic presidential candidate. But
even the supposed liberal Democratic Party looked at Bradley
as insane, instead voting for Al Gore and the rest, as they
say, is history.
But today is a good time to reconsider Universal Health Care.
What this program would do is provide health care to all American
citizens regardless of race, creed or social status.
Most importantly, it would call for full support by the government
in abolishing those awful HMOs, where you can't get any type
of help and if you do it's poor, uninspired and cost-effective.
Universal Health Care would perhaps help all of us in the United
States achieve a more positive lifestyle with better eating
habits and above all proactive medical attention rather than
reactive.
Also, it would allow those that are poor, very old or very young
receive the type of medical attention that they require. By
doing this we could end adolescent deaths due to malnutrition
or lack of decent medical attention.
In short this system could work for all of us, by making us
more comfortable to go to a doctor and know that we won't get
the run around. Universal Health Care would ensure for all of
us that we would receive attention regardless of how much money
it will cost the doctor.
A system like this is already in place in countries like Canada
and has greatly improved their way of life. The cost to us is
only a small additional tax on our paychecks. Sure we're ready
to fund wars, but we can't fund our own health?
This is the biggest problem as to why Universal Health Care
has been defeated to this point. The big medial conglomerates
that do not have our best interests in minds have gone on a
campaign to make it seem like it would be so much more costly
to tax us for our health.
There are some places where capitalism does not belong and socialism
does, health care is one of them. We should have the right to
good medical attention without money entering the picture at
any time.
More to the point, our health should be one of those fundamentals
rights guaranteed us by our government and should not be in
the hands of greedy multi-million dollar conglomerates.
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