They don't have healthcare now, and I don't see them spreading diseases throughout the land, or alleyways jammed with corpses!
... but it makes more sense than having a bunch of people staggering around carrying infectious diseases and passing them on, or a bunch of corpses rotting in the streets.
In fact, a good portion of Americans have never had healthcare insurance during the past 100 years. Yet, I cannot recall corpses piling up on streets like the black plague of Europe anywhere in America.
It's true that millions died from influenza in 1916, but the medical community at the time was at a loss to stop that, and health insurance would not have changed that one iota.
In fact, a significant number that are employed, but are listed as not having health insurance, do. They are teenagers who are covered under their parent's family plan even though their employers do not provide it because they are part-time workers.
The better thing to do is to eliminate the IRS, incorporate the www.cats.org plan, and totally exempt anyone from below a certain income from any kind of tax at all. Including excise taxes and state, local and city taxes.
Then they could afford basic health insurance premiums. |
