Jacques Youssef

The Myth of Universal Health Care

Posted by Jacques on September 23, 2009 | 82 Comments

For the past 20 years or so, every now and then our presidents and law makers have brought up the topic of Universal Health Care. The Obama administration now seems adamant about bringing health care to all Americans. At what cost will this be however? Are we really going to trust the government with a decision like this after the constant trend of miss-managing our tax payer money with excessive spending?

How do they seriously consider getting this done anyway? Our federal budget is eleven trillion dollars and swiftly growing. They have bailed out banks, insurance companies, auto companies, and wall street, all the while situations for the average American family have been deteriorating. Why is it that our government feels that the large corporations deserve help more then us?  I’ll tell you why. It is because we have no lobbyists in the halls of the capital and of the white house.

Our politicians already have our vote to be in power and so now is the time for them to pay back the special interest groups who donated billions of dollars to their campaigns. Our President now wants to hand over our money and future to the health insurance companies. How could we just go alone with it while the politicians and health insurance executives negotiate our lives!

These are the same type of companies and executives that have been bailed out by our hard earned money; now the government wants to give them more? I guess it wasn’t enough. Our law makers must still owe more money, so that more CEO’s and executives can continue getting billions in bonuses, while the average American family see their future evaporate before their eyes.

Our law makers want mandatory health insurance for every American? Great! Who is going to pay for this Mr. President? The average Americans can barely keep their heads above water with the rising cost of living, home foreclosures, unemployment, and eduction. Is this “universal health care” going to be paid with new taxes, so that the average American could continue making your special interest groups fatter and fatter? Is this how our government wants to reward the hard working citizens of this country?

No Mr. President, the American people will not stand for this! Enough lobbyists and special interest groups taking our money for their extravagant and corrupt lives; enough big government intervention trying to tell us how to spend our money and live our lives! You need to keep your campaign promises, and end this trend of Washington back door deals and corruption.

I am no expert on health care planing, but I believe that in a country with 300 million, we could still find few honest experts to lead the way in making health care affordable and fair for every American family. Health insurance companies and corrupt Washington politicians should not be dictating this matter. Perhaps the proper way of getting universal health insurance is to establish a non profit organization that would be supervised and monitored by a group of experts without any ties to a political party or special interest group. The experts chosen would be responsible for researching and determining which ways if any would allow all Americans to be able to afford health insurance without infringing on peoples’ choices and freedom.

Private insurance companies should also not be allowed to wield the power they do. They are currently part of the problem and we cannot allow them to have any lobbyists in our government.

It is our life, future and final decision. Let us make our voices loud and clear: Enough corruption, and miss-handling of our money and future. We are rising to reclaim our freedom and future.

I look forward to discussions on this matter and seeing what people think. Thank you for your support!

-Jacques