Obamacare not affordable

[Aractus]

Funny how the government always seems to have issues coming up with money when they're providing health care, schools, roads and food, but they never seem to have trouble coming up with money for guns and prisons.

I think universal health care shouldn't be hard; just cut military spending and roll back the Bush tax cuts and problem solved.

I think, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, that prisons are handled at the State level not the federal level, so that point is moot - the US Fed government can't take from the State government's revenue!

I actually agree with you with military spending - especially on chemical and biological weapon development, storage, etc. The USA should destroy all their WMD's other than nuclear weapons, and cease chemical and biological weapon development. This would save a huge chunk of money better spent elsewhere, as it is that money gets you nothing except very expensive WMD's that you cannot ever use but pose a very real and serious risk if they fall into the wrong hands, or are accidentally leaked.

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Ideally, this would be good, but there are the Southern states to contend with. Texas, Mississippi, Alabama... these states cannot be trusted to run ANYTHING. Look at how they run their schools and that's a good indicator of how they'd run their healthcare systems.

Then you would have citizens of those states travelling to northern states with universal healthcare to get cared for, and that's an unavoidable situation since you're right there are plenty of states that would not be interested in providing it. But at least it would be affordable, and provide coverage for everyone in the country (even if people do have to travel).

On a technical note, in Australia, sometimes patients do have to be transported from one region to another for emergencies. Do you know what happens to people who have no one to contact once they're released from hospital? They have to find their own way home - often they do not have their identification - bank cards, mobile phone, etc, as they're left in their homes, and our government does not return them back to where we collected them from! It's left to church-run charities to get these people a. accommodation and b. a bus ticket home!