The insured do have millions spent to keep them alive, a great small indusrtry, which many would skip. They become the profit standard for healthcare.
Good old Public Health did not care who, Colera, Typhoid? They went after the water supply, till everyone had clean water.
Rickets, pelegra, hardly exist any more. There are still many ways that public health could be improved directly, cheaply, but the private pratice objects.
You do not have to have Universal Unlimited Healthcare to target some problems that are common, and treatable. Cervical cancer from warts is a one shot vaccine, and only a third of the girls have taken it. It is much cheaper than dealing with cancer later.
Having gone through education, one size fits all, and seen the output, I hardly feel like paying more for a bad product, unless it is a student account, $6,000 a year, that can be applied to a better education. We have the worst education system, the lowest performance, of any industrial country.
While supporting public education is a civic duty, supporting teachers unions with their own retirement is not. 15.4% of their wages do not go to Social Security, which for all government employees, is half the workforce. That comes off the top of my earnings. Money for education is not spent on students.
We could do a lot more with the money we are already spending.
I believe in reasonable accomidation, the disabled should not be shut out, but the law makes it much easier to have no public restrooms.
My local quickeymart has ten parking spaces, three are taken up by one disabled spot, then another with room for a van and wheelchair lift, with its's own space, but I have never seen anyone in a wheelchair use the quickeymart. 30% of the population is not disabled.
Laws are passed that put the cost burden on small business. If it is a public accomidation, let the public pay some rent on that spot.
Small business is vital to the economy. They provide the most new jobs, the most overall, collect taxes, sales, and invest in community development. Under the current system, they are disabled. Make ten thousand or a million you have the same complience laws, which is an unequal burden on the smaller.
It is one of the major causes of chain stores killing main street. Without a constant new crop of business, most of which will fail, you do not get the ones that make it, grow, and in expanding become larger employers. Small business runs on people. It is the job generator of the entire system.
Big companies can afford automation, and having one staff, can buy other companies and let the people go. Their profits come from killing jobs. They buy the company for the accounts, then set up in Mexico to supply them. Ten million jobs were sent offshore, and we have ten million unemployed. They seemed to have missed the part where they were supposed to develop high end services and become rich.
This health care bill will most likely fall on the remaining American employers, another cost added to employment. Unemployment is the most likely result.
Jobs were our best form of education, exposure to the best means developed better means. Workers then went and started their own companies. Some people followed their own mind, and just started a business. Most fail, but after about three tries you can get good at it.
Think of it as a school, I have some very expensive machines that few own, most have never seen, but learning to use them shows how value can be added. Employment provides education that Universities cannot. There is also the mindset of business, from raw material to final consumer, we do it all.
Most find that they are happier making less on their own than more at a job. They may make more, but having your own is good. It is a minority culture that has done well for the majority.
Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and the Wright Brothers all started out by owning a bicycle shop. Skills grow.
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