Someday I’d really like to get the time to write out a statement about my opinions on health care reform. Until then, just know that I think:
- Everyone needs access to quality health care. This includes financial access.
- Health care coverage shouldn’t be linked to jobs. People lose jobs (and therefore insurance).
- I like the idea of a single-payer system but admit the transition would be difficult.
- Americans think they deserve the best health care that someone else will pay for.
Don’t read too far into my political views based on what I just said. I assure you they are more complex than I can jot down in the five minutes I am taking to post this.
Too often people think that the government isn’t capable of running anything, let alone healthcare. So I was amused when I saw this comment on a website. I don’t know who wrote it, but it’s food for thought.
This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy.
I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility.
After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the Food and Drug Administration.
At the appropriate time as regulated by the US Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads built by the local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.
Then, after spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, I drive back to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and the fire marshal’s inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.
I then log onto the Internet which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and post on freerepublic and fox news forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can’t do anything right.
