Reply #56: We just tax everybody to pay for everything when it comes [View All]

[JDPriestly]

to national "defense" and many, many other services and things. I've lived in European countries and enjoyed the benefits of national health care systems. You have the health care when you need it, not when you can afford it. It's great. I'm 100% for national health care.

Everybody gets. If you don't benefit from national health care, your mom, your dad, your sister, your children, someone you know and love will benefit at a time when they really need it.

The problem with our current healthcare if that you have it when you are doing well, working and healthy. The minute you get really sick and can't work, you lose your healthcare because you can no longer afford it. The health insurance companies take your money when you are healthy and leave you to suffer or even die or rely on Medicaid when you are too sick to work. What a racket!

It is sheer idiocy for the American people to put up with the health care system we have. The diversity of our population has nothing to do with our unwillingness to change and go for national healthcare of some sort. The only reason Americans are reluctant to make this change is that they are ignorant. Ignorance is the biggest problem in this country. Ignorance that is proud and stubborn and unwilling to learn or try new things.