its all a scam

Since the mid-twentieth century, people in the United States have been terrified of anything that relates to socialism because of the occurrences in many socialist nations during those times. As many tactics in our government, calling universal healthcare “socialism” is simply a marketing ploy.  It is a term used by opponents to a nationalized healthcare system simply to scare people away from being interested in it and, to a certain extent, induce fear.  Fear tends to shut people down to the point that they refuse to listen to any opinion that is not their own. 

Several of the recent administrations have hired marketing experts to strategically plan how to word agenda items in order to elicit the desired reaction from the general population.  Naming a universal healthcare plan socialist is simply one of these cases.  And unfortunately, many people believe these words and base their own personal – or worse voting – opinions on this marketing.  So yes, this is a great way to prevent that all people in the U.S. can be guaranteed healthcare because too many people will be afraid to allow it to happen.

The biggest problem is that our healthcare system will never be solely one type of system and there will always be a mixture of coverage as in most universal healthcare systems in European countries.  Today’s universal healthcare systems in Europe do not necessarily represent a completely socialist government, however they do all represent a system that is better providing for the health of its citizens.  Perhaps we need to stop focusing so much on the labels of things and instead look at the desired outcomes that can be gained more efficiently by making a few “scary” changes.