I'm not sure I understand how for-profit health insurance is legal, much less Constitutional. It's really the only essential service in the nation and it's lightly regulated at best in most states.
I can put up solar panels to generate electricity, I can grow some food, water is still plentiful, I can walk or bike to work. Despite the US Solicitor's pathetic handling of the question about cemeteries as a vital service that you don't know you need until you need it, my body can be disposed of without impacting my neighbors without a cemetery. I don't ever require a cemetery.
But I can't expect to live very long if I can't access health care.
The only other required service is public safety. And that is paid for by taxes which don't directly and proportionately correspond to their actual utilization. This concept seems to have ubiquitous general support. If private police armies were allowed and licensed, very few people would support it for very obvious reasons - especially since there is no real accountability... just like with health insurance companies.
We need leaders to use their powers to change the way we think about health care. No one on the right will do so. And the current administration is too feeble to lead on any issue - because the right wingers foment negative media responses and they're too fragile to take a punch and fight back.
In the meantime, we'll just keep going bankrupt when medical emergencies hit. Disgraceful.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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