Shanelle's Post

I get so frustrated every time I hear the word Universal Health Care followed by the word
Socialized medicine. Universal Health Care in the U.S. would be no more “socialist” than
the social security or the postal system we already have. The scare tactic is built upon
the argument that Universal Health Care would put decisions about your health in the hands
of the government instead of you being able to make those decisions yourself. First of
all, Universal Health Care would allow you to make more decisions for your healthcare
because you will have more freedom to choose your type of care, hospitals, and physicians.
Moreover, people who have no access to healthcare right now don’t even have the option of
making decisions, but under a Universal Health Care system they will be able to access
health care and make decisions on their own treatments. Most of the decisions that are
made under the current system are being made by corporate bureaucrats working for private
insuran
ce companies (whose main concerns are making larger profits by denying your claims). So
wouldn’t the government being in control be better than money hungry insurance companies
being in control? Let’s not let verbal scare tactics prevent the need for universal
health care!