(A) There is nothing wrong with health care in the United States. The Healthcare debate is about money.
(B) Today in the U.S., whether you can pay for it or not, everyone gets some form of healthcare.
(C) With US population growth near zero, the healthcare costs of the U.S. will be basically flat plus inflation in the future.
(D) There are three "costs" that occur within the healthcare system that do not contribute to healing and prevention. (1) Fraud, (2) Poor Productivity, (3) Insurance Company Profits. All three of these must be eliminated which further ensures point (C) above will be true.
(E) Fraud and Poor Productivity can be eliminated through the use of Information Technology provided some effort is put into business process re-engineering.
(F) Insurance companies would be required to operate at zero profit plus investment recap for their health insurance units. They can also leverage their back office operations with their other "for profit" insurance units (auto, home, etc.) to gain some economic advantages.
(G) Since Federal and State governments of the U.S. already provide more than 50% of the health care insurance coverage already, a government provided insurance option can be provided for those not wishing to buy private insurance. Government insurance programs for the poor and aged would continue as they do today.
(H) Those who remain uninsured, consume healthcare services and then refuse to pay for those services will be pressed into community service at healthcare institutions until their debt is repaid.
(I) Businesses may provide insurance coverage for their employees and/or self-insure as a means of retaining talent.
(J) Second amendment rights will ensure the government won't ration health care because the American people won't stand for it. The politicians will lose their jobs or worse.Today my parents are covered by US government provided medicare and they buy additional insurance ("medicare supplement") from a private insurer to cover things that Medicare does not provide. What is wrong with that for all US citizens?
You see, if the arguments could be reduced to the facts and points above, we could make progress. But there are groups at work who are positioning the legislation such that their real agenda can be carried out later. And it is these groups for which the common citizens are most afraid and why protests are mounting:
#1) The anti-population crowd that believes there are too many people already and that death should be hastened for the unproductive and reproduction should be curtailed. Their basis lies in the belief that the planet's biggest problem is people.
#2) The anti-capitalist crowd who believes that anything that provides equal opportunity without equal outcomes must be eliminated.
#3) The anti-freedom crowd who believe that they know what is best for people and plan to use the provision or denial of healthcare to control people.
#4) The usual suspects that create massive legislative works in order to enrich themselves, their friends, or people who helped them get elected in the last election.
