One of the most important resources of any nation in the world is the health of its citizens. That is too important to be left to a commercial industry who must subordinate that resource - the health of American citizens - to its own need for profit.
Commercial businesses operate on a short-term basis, usually quarter-to-quarter. The health care of the nation is an on-going, long term project.
Our present system has produced probably 50 million Americans with no insurance at all, perhaps 50 million more who are under-insured. Those Americans who depend on their employer to provide their health-care, are dependent upon and bound to that company. American businesses who have to carry this additional cost find themselves at a disadvantage as they compete in the global economy with companies from other nations who do not carry these costs.
It will cost money in additional taxes? Probably. But America is currently paying - for its dangerously ineffective system - about twice as much for health care as any other nation in the world and getting about half the benefit that they do, Taxes may go up, but the price we are paying for health insurance may vanish! Not only will the nation begin to become heather, but we will have more money too!
Finally, health care can not be a free market service. No individual can negotiate on a free market basis with health-care insurance companies like Blue Cross or Cigna, or any of the others. Health care must be regulated by government.
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