When I talk to business-minded people, they preach the bottom line with as many fear tactics as they can muster (Note: Michael Moore is currently under federal investigation for taking 9/11 victims to Cuba to receive a service and thus violated a trade embargo). Their message, "You will lose everything if you oppose the status quo." I don't know enough to know what's true about it all, but I do know that the same people who claim we can't give healthcare to everyone have also figured out how to skirt the tax lax, outsource America, and maintain businesses in different regions of the world without violating laws or trade agreements in any of the varied political systems. I think if they really wanted to do so, they could figure out an economically sound means to create a healthy population.
So, why universal healthcare? Why should YOU have to pay for EVERYONE's health?
It's the right thing to do.
That's it. The whole story. Nothing else matters. We'll figure out the details once we all decide to make a choice for moralistic reason. Once upon a time, four friends sat at a pub in Boston. They dreamed up a country*....and the noblemen of their own country laughed and said they'd go bankrupt, starve to death, amount to nothing!
America amounted to something. It's high time she amounted to a little more.
I think we should all start sending our healthcare bills to the White House and refusing to pay. We could write, "Please forward to my representatives. Thank you." on the invoice. It's such a great idea for a modern-day Boston Tea Party.**
*A country, I remind the reader, that the founding fathers predicted could stand only as long as its people governed themselves with righteous principles.
**And, yes, we do have taxation without representation. Unless the average middle class family is currently funding campaigns and hiring lobbyists without my knowledge.
