Health insurance companies do NOT provide health care, they only stand between health care providers and those who need it, demanding a profit. There are certain things that society collectively needs to provide for everyone, including fire and police protection, national defense, roads, water, sewers, education, and yes, prisons. Just imagine if we each had to buy private policies to be covered for these. Is health care no less vital? Just because there is a “government plan” doesn’t mean that you can’t buy extra security, private schools, additional health care, etc. if you wish.
To collectively provide the American people with vital basic services is not unconstitutional. In fact, quite the opposite: the Constitution fundamentally exists to organize and provide the very things that society collectively needs, by establishing a government to do so. Is this “socialism?” Call it what you will, but to deny the people these vital, basic services, just to protect the corporate profits of an industry that actually provides nothing but riches to their shareholders, is selective anarchy, extortion, and plutocracy.
I wish that you would take the health insurance industries’ annual profits, and divide that figure by the estimated 40,000+ deaths suffered by Americans each year from lack of health insurance, and see how much money the industry made from each “kill.” Pray that you or your child doesn’t come down with a cancer or other disease, for which there is no plan to pay for. Then ask yourself if you want your money to actually pay for health care, or to be spent buying air time for a parasite industry to tell you why their profits are more important than the lives of you and your children, and to grease the palms of politicians to keep it that way. Then think again if you are really a constitutional scholar, or merely a tool of the health insurance industry.
I believe the point of Wiley’s cartoon here is the irony in that, while we recognize a need to provide health care to the least-respected of people in our society, we don’t see a need to provide it for everyone else.
Health insurance companies do NOT provide health care, they only stand between health care providers and those who need it, demanding a profit. There are certain things that society collectively needs to provide for everyone, including fire and police protection, national defense, roads, water, sewers, education, and yes, prisons. Just imagine if we each had to buy private policies to be covered for these. Is health care no less vital? Just because there is a “government plan” doesn’t mean that you can’t buy extra security, private schools, additional health care, etc. if you wish.
To collectively provide the American people with vital basic services is not unconstitutional. In fact, quite the opposite: the Constitution fundamentally exists to organize and provide the very things that society collectively needs, by establishing a government to do so. Is this “socialism?” Call it what you will, but to deny the people these vital, basic services, just to protect the corporate profits of an industry that actually provides nothing but riches to their shareholders, is selective anarchy, extortion, and plutocracy.
I wish that you would take the health insurance industries’ annual profits, and divide that figure by the estimated 40,000+ deaths suffered by Americans each year from lack of health insurance, and see how much money the industry made from each “kill.” Pray that you or your child doesn’t come down with a cancer or other disease, for which there is no plan to pay for. Then ask yourself if you want your money to actually pay for health care, or to be spent buying air time for a parasite industry to tell you why their profits are more important than the lives of you and your children, and to grease the palms of politicians to keep it that way. Then think again if you are really a constitutional scholar, or merely a tool of the health insurance industry.
I believe the point of Wiley’s cartoon here is the irony in that, while we recognize a need to provide health care to the least-respected of people in our society, we don’t see a need to provide it for everyone else.