On Universal Health Coverage

To those who blindly reject health insurance as something that governments ought to provide their citizens - yes I'm referring to American Republicans - I challenge them to consider where they will get their health insurance for all the remaining days of their lives - not just today while they are young, and healthy and employed.

Even assuming they are one of the fortunate few who do manage to hold on to their existing coverage for life, do they believe that their insurance company will honor that policy in twenty years to the same extent and level of service that they did twenty years ago? Were they not among the same group of people that told those corporations to cut costs every single year? Were they not among those same people that held up the quarterly financial targets as the priority exceeding even the processing of certain health insurance claims?

It is not duplicity, or a double standard that makes them act this way. It is just blindness. Blindness to the fact that in the long run, they are in the same boat as those already needing government supplied health insurance coverage.

Until such a time as corporations return "doing the right thing" back to their corporate mandate in place of "meeting the quarterly targets", health coverage needs to be provided federally for all citizens of all countries.

Doing the right thing means looking at the individual as someone who needs care. Meeting the quarterly targets means looking at the individual as an additional expense to the bottom line. One is charitable and serves others and one is stingy and self serving. One is the goal of humanitarianism and one is the goal of capitalism; and only one will meet the health coverage needs of the citizens as opposed to the shareholders.