Universal Health Care

Why am I so against "Universal Health Care" you ask? Well, here it is.
Government screws things up. They're famous for that. Whenever
government mandates something, it's full of errors and red tape. Ask
anyone who's ever been on Medicaid, like me. You go to the dentist for
a minor repair, and the dentist gives you a temporary fix and tells
you to come back in a few weeks or months. But you can't because the
government only allows you one visit a year that they'll cover, and to
try to do it out of your own pocket will cost you more money than they
give you for at least two months. You're thankful though that you at
least have a temporary fix, and hope it lasts.
So here's my point. Making everyone get health insurance is ludicrous.
If you work full time, chances are you are at least offered health
insurance. And if you're working part time, chances are you qualify
for Medicaid. Putting the government even more in charge of health
insurance only takes away competition, decreasing quality of care and
increasing prices. And if it's all government-mandated, who's going to
pay for it? Do you really expect to support everyone in this country
without raising taxes? I don't think that'll ever happen!
So what are we going to do? Here's what I think should happen. We need
to beef up the economy, bringing in new jobs, and making pre-existing
jobs better. We need to perhaps give businesses incentives for making
employees full time instead of part time, and require them provide at
least basic health insurance. We need to get rid of NAFTA and all the
other free trade agreements. We need to seal up the borders and give
the jobs that the illegals took back to our citizens. We need to focus
more on teaching our children how to think critically, use common
sense, realize the value of the basic subjects like math and science,
and quit just spending all year preparing them for test after test. If
you want a national test to check the progress of the students, do it
at the end of the year when they've studied everything they're
supposed to have learned. Let's make use of the need to get off of our
oil addiction by building plants in economically hard-hit areas of our
country to better use and produce alternative energy sources like wind
and hydrogen. Let's get off of the corn-based ethanol bandwagon, as
it's only making food too expensive for our families. We can do
better, we must do better for our children and for ourselves.