So I think I have found a good way to express how I feel about universal healthcare. I'm not sure if I support the current plan, but I do think that universal healthcare is a good thing. My line of thinking goes like this. We require people to have car insurance. Why do we require car insurance? Because if we get in an accident then we want to make sure that the car can be replaced.
So if we support car insurance why are we so against governtment mandated healthcare to fix our bodies if they break. It's true that if we didn't require insurance and people just saved enough money they could pay for their medical costs, but if that is true then why don't we do that with car insurance? Why don't we just tell people that they should save some money incase they get in a car accident? Then if they don't get in an accident they can use that money for what ever else they want. The reason we don't do that is because nobody thinks they will be the one who will get in an accident untill its to late. So we require people to protect their cars with insurance.
Now let's look at health insurance. If we follow the same logic as with car insurance we will see that if people are not required to save the money for health care then they won't and a person's body is much more important than their car. So before anyone tries to convince me that we shouldn't require healthcare for all Americans and offer them an adordable option, then you have to convince me that we should no longer require car insurance.
As I said before I don't know that I agree with the current health care bill as is, but I do support health care for all Americans, and Republicans need to get off their high horse and stop rejecting the idea of requiring health care in the name of economic efficiency and realize that somethings are more important than efficiency, and if a car is important enough to require insurance than a person should also be considered that important if not more important.
