Health care is not free. [View All]

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

I'm posting this in response to the large number of threads expressing shock - SHOCK! - at Hillary suggesting that providing health care for all might not be free, and that it might require "garnishing" wages (another euphamism for higher taxes.) Let us be clear on something: health care costs money. A LOT of money. And providing health care for every person in the country is NOT going to be free. It is not going to be cheap. Anybody who claims that they can do it without putting added financial burden on at least the middle and upper income brackets is trying to sell you something that is not health care (a bridge, perhaps.) I live in the UK. You know those lovely western European universal health care systems that everyone here raves about? We PAY for them. It is not cheap, especially for middle class people like me. I don't have the exact figures, but tomorrow I'll reply in this thread with exactly how much it costs me per month. It is not cheap. It is not free. So let's dispense with the idea that any universal health care system (single payer, whatever, I don't care how you label it) is not going to have any impact on your average middle class tax payer. It will. But let me just say this: As a user of the NHS, I could not conceive of a worthier cause to which I could give money. The fact that any and every person in this country can get exceptionally high-quality health care, of the same standard I as an upper-middle class earner can get, fills me with pride. It is worth EVERY PENNY.

End rant.