Universal Healthcare

If we would live in Utopia (we would not be labeled Naive Americans but Naive Utopians) our politicians (would not be career politicians) would have provided healthcare benefits for all citizens.  In addition we would enjoy housing and food benefits in case we are not able to afford them.  On the other hand Naive Utopians would be hard working moral people that would live by one and only one principle:  “Do not do to others what you do not want them do to you”.  By the way, the previous phrase has noting to do with any particular religion.  It is the base from which all other moral principles derive.

In reality we live in the United States of America were our career politicians just want to enjoy power and money and work as little as possible.  Our politicians are not accountable of their actions.  This is similar to our legal system in which innocent people are routinely affected by decisions of jury, lawyers and judges.  By the way, we called the jury a jury of peers but that is seldom the case.

So lets get down to the simple facts regarding healthcare.  I believe that all Naive Americans regardless of age and sex should have healthcare benefits.  This would make for a better and happier society.  Is this simply attainable?

Allow me to make an uncomplicated analogy disregarding the actual huge deficit that our nation has.  An individual with a steady income (which is not the case with the US, the us GDP is currently and constantly shrinking thanks to globalization and the greed of many Naïve Americans) of $1,000 Dollars per week may spend no more that $1,000 dollars per week.  If the person spends more then a deficit will be incurred.  Sooner or later credits will dry up and that person will go through tough financial times.  Believe it or not, the US has a deficit in the trillions of Dollars and we continue to spend and borrow what we do not have while reducing our manufacturing and development.

If the individual in our example does not have healthcare benefits and is currently spending his entire $1,000 Dollars per week, how can he or she purchase something else?  It is not possible.  The same holds true for the US.  President Obama and any of his advisors can tell you different stories, but at the end if we do not have enough money we cannot pay for such benefits.  The only way is to raise taxes.  This may be fine when the economy of the country is growing.  The fact of the matter is that our economy has been shrinking for about fifty years now.

The economical crisis created by the US earlier this year affected the entire world.  AT this point in time the US is still in crisis.  Take a look at Asia.  They went into a recession, which was lighter than the one in the US, and they are almost out of it.  We cannot do this because we have no means to produce goods and technology that other countries desire.

In conclusion, universal healthcare is a MUST in this country.  The issue is how to pay for it.  The government does not produce a single thing.  All the money comes from taxes and borrowing.  The credit sources for the US are drying up.  One way or another we will have to pay for the loans we are getting today.  The only way is for the US government to raise taxes.  If there are very few people contributing it does not take an individual with more than elementary education to figure out that the suggested approach it not going to work in the near or foreseeable future.

So before we talk about healthcare and other reforms lets make sure we can pay for them.  The CHANGE that Mr. Obama was talking about is in education and industry.  Not sure Mr. Obama, his advisors and most Naive Americans understood what CHANGE meant.