One of President Obama’s major goals as president is to pass a universal health care bill.  This is a very bad and deadly idea for many reasons.  Why would one be against government health care?  Many people feel that this is a great idea and that it will solve their health insurance problems.  After all, who would be against free health care?  The first rule of life is that if something looks too good to be true – it is.  Here are a few questions to ask yourself:

What government agency, with the exception of the military, do you know that is efficient and has great customer service?  Have you ever called the Social Security Administration, the DMV, or the Post Office?  Government, by definition is a poor manager of any business.

Second, would you rather be in charge of your health care or would you trust the government?  Having universal health care is very dangerous to your health.  All you have to do is to look at countries that have such care, countries such as Canada or any European country.  While I was in Italy last May I had a discussion about socialized medicine with an Italian who loved it.  He told me that he had had a heart by-pass operation and paid nothing.  This sounds great until you look into government-sponsored health care.  First of all, given the inefficiency inherent in government run businesses, the cost would be astronomical.  The Obama health plan is estimated to cost one 1.6 trillion dollars for a ten year period, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office – that is one thousand, six hundred billion dollars.  Additionally, this plan would leave 36 million people without insurance. This cost would easily triple the national debt, consequently causing untold damage to our economy and causing extensive inflation.

Third, I’m sure you’re aware that Social Security is sick and dying.  It is estimated that Social Security will be broke by 2017.  If we cannot afford a small socialized program such as social security, how can we afford to have the entire population on a socialized program?  Where would the money come from?  Medicare, for instance, pays hospitals 71% of what private insurance pays them.  What would happen to doctors?  Would they be attracted to practice with such meager payments?  What would happen to quality of care?

In England where they have socialized health care, an average person making $60,000 per year would pay 45% in income taxes alone– $27,000 for one year; the equivalent person in the United States with this yearly income pays less than 10% in income taxes, or $6,000.  You call this free health care? Could you buy a good, private health care for that extra $21,000 you just paid for one year?  I think so.

President Obama says that one reason for having socialized health care is that is would provide competition to private health care providers.  Currently, there are about 1,300 private companies providing health care insurance.  Competition?  President Obama says that if you like your private plan you can keep it.  Well, this sounds good but, again, this is deceptive.  Government, because it has huge resources, can drown private companies by, at first, providing health care that is cheaper.  This would drive all private companies out of the business.  Once private companies are out of the business, you’re stuck with the government and if you don’t like the services they provide, well you can go to Canada, or Mexico, or pay for a private doctor.  Does this sound good?  I don’t think so.

There are many, many more reasons.  You could fill a book of 500 pages to explain all the reasons why universal health care is deadly to your health.