Do Americans really want universal health care? Matthew Holt analyzes the recent NY Times survey:
But if you ask people as Harris finally does at the end of its survey – which pre-dates the Times’ – if they’re wiling to see a “substantial” increase in taxes to help the less fortunate, then support for the whole idea falls off. It’s worth noting that the Times poll only asked about a $500 increase – which probably doesn’t sound like that much money. And more importantly, when Harris got to the part about asking for a substantial tax increase, the support was lost of most everyone polled, especially those independent voters who politicians treasure so dearly.
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Everyone wants it done, but no one wants to pay for it. Unless you are willing to spend a whole lot more in taxes you might as well shut your hole if you don’t like the current system.
You can get anything you want in a poll.
You can also get anything you want in America if you are willing to pay for it. You want universal health insurance. Well in “your” universe, you can have it, just buy yourself health insurance.
Just leave my universe along.
Universal healthcare would be a universal headache. The people that cheat the system would overload anything that could be thought up. If people have to suffer because they can’t afford healthcare, then everyone is very sorry about it, but that’s all that can be done. The truth of the world is that some people will be better off than others. It’s why we’re not in a marxist utopia here people, these kind of ideals don’t work out when we have everyone putting their own interests first. And why shouldn’t they?
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