It's time, lets work on healthcare

I was listening to our tour bus guide as he spoke about the hospital we passed on Prince Edward Island.  He said how it was relatively new and had a great reputation for cancer treatment and that about the only thing they couldn’t handle were open heart surgeries, for which patients would be helicoptered to Halifax, Nova Scotia, 20 minutes away.
He matter of factly stated that if you went to the hospital, or a clinic, or your own doctor, there was of course, no bill, that it is financed by taxes on liquor, etc.

NO bill.

Not for doctor visits, hospital stays, MRI, CAT scans, cancer treatment……..

Now that the zombie Obamacare repeal is dead, can we finally have real talks in our country about joining the rest of the world in recognizing that healthcare should be a right, not a privilege for the rich, as it is now?

We accept that veterans care is a right (although we often short change them), we accept that social security and Medicare health insurance in retirement years is a right.
Why do we continue to accept, in perhaps the most prosperous country the world has ever known, that access to quality, affordable healthcare is the right of only the rich, or those lucky enough to have fantastic healthcare coverage through their work?
Why do we put added pressure on small business owners who cannot compete with corporations when it comes to providing healthcare coverage their employees?
Why do we continue to place added pressure on our our corporations to provide healthcare coverage to their employees when their competitors in other countries do not have this pressure?

We are the richest country the world has ever seen.
The fact that healthcare is tied to our employment and can end the minute our employment ends (often through no fault of our own) is a travesty.

Yes it will require us to contribute through increased taxes.
But those taxes will be offset by decreased individual or group insurance premiums.

Yes it will end excessive profits to the insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the healthcare industry.
But no one should profit from the cancer of another.
No one should profit from the mental illness of another.
No one should profit from the genetic weakness of another.

It appears that repeal of Obamacare, the zombie that just wouldn’t die, is finally dead.
Now let’s get to work.
Let’s show the world what a first class universal healthcare system is.
It won’t be easy.
The worthwhile things never are.