When Christopher America Rediscovered Europe
November 16, 2924
Jack R. Noel
Most Americans believe that “socialized medicine” is equivalent to communist medicine, which it is not. Socialized medicine is designed to be cost free after one has paid their taxes. But Conservatives always assert that paying one’s taxes is “oppression.” So we have the perfect storm of misinformation propagated by Conservatives and Conservatism.
Lets drop all the pretense at moral supperiority, Conservatism itself is founded on the idea that profit-making insurance companies should control your choice of medical finanancing. This is your financial domain, you can choose to have improved medical insurance simply by having Congress pass a model medical insurance law such as that which all citizens of European contries have. Medical insurance and medical care is universally available and all plans are based on paying enough in taxes to cover the cost which is earned by all insurance companies. There is nowherfe that insurance companies constantly seek to increase profitability because medical insurance officials all received satisfactory compensation.
Your telephone is ringing several times a day with calls coming from various medical insurance companies telling you they are checking to see if you are “eligible” for “new” benefits. In Europe, there is no such…