Health Care

Proposal 4

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Posted January 24, 2007

Issue: Over 40,000,000 million Americans are without health insurance. Almost half of them are children. Many others have health insurance but can barely afford it. Most, if not all, of the 40,000,000 uninsured Americans and those who have trouble affording the health care they receive have called for a government run universal health care system that will either be paid for through higher taxation or by all employers. Non-supporters of this proposal wish not to be forced to pay for other citizens’ health care, including many employers who only want to pay wages for work that is done and not an employee’s health care.

Principle: Controlling your own health care is grounded in the concept of freedom, whether you are an employer or an employee. Being forced to pay for health care the way the government or large portions of the population see fit destroys freedom and liberty. This means if nearly 40,000,000 million Americans have declared that they want a universal health care system, there is no reason why they should not have it. Likewise, there is no reason why such a system should be forced upon the remaining population who have declared they do not want it.

Solution: Initiate a choice between government run health care, paid for through taxation of those who choose to participate, and the continuation of private health care, with no extra tax taken from those who choose not to participate in the universal system. Citizens will also be free to alter their choice at any time. Those that sign up for universal health care will be identified and have more tax taken from them to pay for the universal system they are part of. Those that do not sign up for universal health care will have no extra tax taken from them and can continue to use private health care.

Benefits: – Freedom remains intact for everyone with no initiation of force, through the power of choice.

Author's Comments

The standard LP plank doesn't even address the real problem with health care that concern most of our country, much less offer a solution other than idealogical stance.

The country will not take us seriously until we are willing to identify the problem they see and come up with an actual solution. Proposal 4 does this, and with a Libertarian solution to boot.

Note – I left the means of "identifying" those who sign up for universal care out, in case the tax system is altered by a future plank. In today's system, obviously, their names would simply be provided to the IRS and they would have extra tax taken from them.

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