UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE

I just want to point out some things the media ignores about the universal healthcare discussions.

The candidates focus on the money that workers pay into healthcare; this is the carrot they dangle in front of the voters.

Don't forget that the employer matches what the worker pays.

With UHC the candidates talk about things like 'making businesses more competative in the world' and this is code for 'we aren't going to make the businesses pay into the healthcare system anymore' and businesses will put this money into their own pockets.

The candiates talk about 40 million uninsured Americans, but the media lets the candidates exclude the 10-20 million illegal aliens (which is a stat that is about 3 years old now and also when we look at the estimates from the last amnesty under Ronald Reagan that the govt estimates were 300% below the actual number of illegal aliens!).

The uninsured and illegal aliens do not pay enough into healthcrae to offset what corporations would no longer have to pay; thus this shortfall would be an increase in taxes when medicaid and social security is on the road to being bankrupt.

UHC has, in every country it has been implemented, caused wage stagnation or decreased wages for workers in the medical sector.

UHC causes wait times and this is in the best interest of the drug companies as these wait times will increase the amount of pharmacuticals needed to provide comfort until the actual medical procedure(s) can be done.

One aspect to why the healthcare costs have been increasing is the number of uninsured babies we allow to be born into our system as these uninsured procedures get the maximum billing rates and then cause everyone elses insurance cost to go up to recoup these charges.

Another aspect is when there are adverse effects from prescription drugs. I think the cost for adverse effects of prescribed drugs should be billed back to the pharmacutical companies as this requires more doctor visits and drives up the cost for insurance for everyone else also.

Another thing we could do instead is train more doctors and make college more affordable for everyone; like putting free basic college courses on the internet making the total cost to become a doctor to cost less.

Instead of UHC I would like to see a medical military branch converted from either the Marines or Army so that we use existing pentagon funds to provide basic medical care for the impoverished US citizens instead of raising taxes and letting corporations avoid paying for the benefit of healthcare.