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James, as Logesman said, if you provide everyone with health care, the system becomes too highly taxed to be effective. The fact of the matter is that the money just isn't there to provide everyone with state funded health care. The money is barely there to provide everyone with schooling. We don't have the funds, which means that we have to sacrifice. Funding needs to get cut until we can get our budget back in order, and we can't do that if we are starting to spend more money.
Another issue that I have with this bill is that we are going to start spending into it, but we won't be able to reap any of the supposed benefits until 2014 if I'm understanding things right. The fact is, that money isn't going to go to the health care system at all for the first 4 years, it is going to be spent on other projects.
The US simply does not have the resources or the infrastructure currently to provide an effective national health care system. I wish it did, but we have to look at what we have, not what we want to have. We need to cut the budget, which means dropping or suspending programs that are not decreasing our deficit. We need to look at programs that are going to encourage more corporations to move into the US, because while the percentage of corporate taxes don't need to be high, we can also tax like Wal-Mart sells, lower price, higher volume of income.
Once we have that down, then the states can look at providing a health care system individually. If people want such health care, they can move into those states. If people don't, they can move to another state. It'll be more about competition to get tax revenue for the states I suppose.
Yes, this means dropping a lot of programs that help people, but we have to look at it like this: We can kind of help people now, and dig ourselves into a deeper debt which could lead to more problems down the road; or we can dig ourselves out now, and help people for another few hundred years down the road.
If we stay on the path we are now, with the spending that we have currently, our credit lines will eventually be cut off, and all things will be for naught because no one will have health care when our country collapses.
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