If our country is so broke - why pass universal health care?

[Buying is Voting]

Well first of all, government programs are not created in order to be "successful" in the capitalist sense of "successful," and that's what a lot of socialist-leaning people like about the idea.

But signing ourselves up for an expansion of unfunded liabilities on top of what we already have in that department seems really risky with our future, I agree. It leads me to question whether I'll have any chance whatsoever of retiring in 30 years. I start to doubt it more and more.

The real myth with healthcare, it seems, is that the government is positioning itself AGAINST the private industry. Nothing is farther from the truth. Obama has been depending on health insurance lobbyists and CEOs to develop this new legislation. An expansion of government health care makes it easier for private industry to stay in business. They're currently stuck in a death spiral, in which their costs rise, more people drop out, and the costs rise more, and then more people drop out. They are facing extinction if government doesn't come and, essentially, BAIL THEM OUT.

If the government takes care of the people who tax the private system most heavily, the insurance industry will have the liberty to drop whoever the want and avoid more lawsuits because, hey, there's ALWAYS government health care, right? This is a health insurance industry dream bill.