cartoon by M1khaela

It is time to create across the country mandated health care coverage.  When anyone says “oh, its still too expensive for the person to afford Health Care Coverage” I hear “I love having the person get sick because that makes my medical costs even higher and I love giving money to people I do not know”

Health Care is strangling America across the board.  All you got to do is look at the amount of the GDP that goes to health care.

However, it is time that everyone become responsible for paying something towards health care.  It is time that the federal government also creates a nationwide standard  for minimum care and insurance. Why, you might ask?  Because it is the right thing to do when YOU’RE ALREADY PAYING FOR IT ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.  Responsibility means that everyone needs to be an educated consumer and shops for the best price and care.  An educated consumer is wiser purchaser.  Government has always been lousy at delivering consistent quality services when it is the only providers of the service.  However, creating a standard of care and a price for said care is not that difficult.

Government already pays billions for Medicaid, Medicare, SCHIP, Veterans Services and Active Service personal. Therefore, price the care and pool it with a nationwide insurance premium.  Every employer already pays the Medicare tax and its expected.  Every employee looks for health care to the degree they can obtain it in their job search. To be fair to all and to bring the living wage forward why not increase the minimum wage with an amount that must go towards health care.  If it is an increase in pay to the individual then there needs to be the mandate that employees show proof of insurance or it is deducted from their pay.

Instead of the employees getting the money and it might go to health care I would suggest any organization including nonprofits consider to have it as an employer tax so that it is clear that money goes into the government insurance pool that is managed in conjunction with the rest of the federal health care payments.