Single payer for all

Posted: Jul 26, 2017

If we really want single payer it makes sense to include items that will reduce the cost for everyone. 1. We need to remove malpractice insurance and malpractice lawsuits. If we left these in place we'd force doctors to practice defensive medicine. Anyone complaining of intercostal muscle strain must be kept overnight in the hospital and submit to a battery of tests to rule out a heart problem. 2. Speaking of heart problems... Most of those are due to a bad diet (not to mention obesity and diabetes). Now we also have outlaw any and all unhealthy food. What's unhealthy? We should let the government decide that. Maybe we don't want to outlaw unhealthy food. That's a little over the top. What if we just put the entire nation on foodstamps and mandate that foodstamps can only be used to buy healthy food? If the government is giving us free healthcare, they might as well give us free food. You'll die a lot faster from a lack of food than a lack of healthcare. 3. What about free housing? If we already have free food and free healthcare, can you really make a case against free housing? The homeless are the most unhealthy people around. A lot of people can't afford their own place which forces them to live in stress-inducing suboptimal environments, with roommates or abusive family members. 4. That free government house isn't really a home without the typical amenities like appliances, electricity, heating, water, and Internet. The government should provide that too. It's okay, all of that stuff ties back to healthcare too. You don't want your free food to go bad before you eat it. Of course, eating rotten food will make you sick. 5. What about a job? We can't have people sitting around all day doing nothing leaching off the government. They should all go to work for the government. There's plenty of jobs now. We need to build more housing. 6. Children are next. In order for society to be sustainable we must have more children. Every couple needs to have at least 3 to maintain the population (there's always attrition of some sort) and keep the economy strong. Sorry LGBTQIA community, there's no exceptions. We must all do our part. What am I forgetting? Oh yeah, I'm forgetting that no one will actually try to force all of this on you in one package. Nobody wants that! They'll only force it on you in parts. The secret to stopping it is learning to recognize which part comes first. ;