Hello Geeko Sportivo,
If you gave away free educations, every child now in school- and from now on- would want to grow up to be Doctors and Lawyers and everyone of them would want to go to the most expensive schools- That's as much as $500,000.00 per child!
Not true. Advanced fields of study would require demonstrating aptitude. Only those students which qualify should be advanced to higher levels of study. Also, government-paid tuition should only cover education expenses at state public schools, not expensive ivy league schools. I would also strongly favor a "make-the-cut-or-get-thrown-out' policy. We don't want people thinking they can simply make a career out of going to school. Public education works for K-12. It needs to be expanded to K-16. And those students who wish to go into trades should have that option, and have their trade school expenses covered the same as public school, up to 17 years of education, the equivalent of K-16.
One thing you said above is actually quite beneficial to the USA. We need more doctors. If this system graduates more qualified doctors, that is a good thing!
In a free market enterprise system, it would no longer be free if you refused people of wanting to start or own a Healthcare Insurance Business.
It is true that a national healthcare service would put most individual healthcare insurance companies out of business. But it is also true that millions of jobs would be created to run the national healthcare service. And they should be good secure jobs with great benefits.
There could still be a market for luxury healthcare insurance which would be above and beyond the standard care. If a national healthcare service would provide rudimentary treatment with standard qualified doctors and mass accommodations, a luxury healthcare insurance system could provide treatment by the best doctors, with upgraded larger nicer rooms and luxury treatment.
The Democrats have already produced a National Healthcare System as a choice and last hope to acquire Healthcare insurance for themselves and their families. It just needs some work to make it able to compete with the mainstream Healthcare Insurance Companies on a level playing field.
I disagree. What was produced was a guaranteed profit-generator for existing powerful insurance corporations, who pretty much wrote the law. It was a step towards universal healthcare, but it doesn't cover everybody and it is too expensive because there is so much guaranteed profit built into it. And the Republicans gutted the one thing that made it plausible, the mandate to get it. Without that, it can't work and will become increasingly expensive. We can patch it up and nurse it along but we really need single payer. Perhaps the next step is a public option.
America is about having choices, and not forcing people to close legal businesses, and forcing people onto a National Healthcare system.
Nothing is going to please everyone, so no matter what improvements are made, there will always be someone who objects. Fair competitive business is one thing. Predatory rigged-market business is quite another. The fact that health insurance is tied to employment is a huge mistake which destroys competition. Health insurance is not currently a fair competitive business. It needs to be de-coupled from employment at the very least.
And most people agree with me on these matters, or Biden would not have won the Primary or the presidency!
Biden favored a Public Option. He also favored reducing the qualification age for Medicare.
Democracy is about giving the Voting Majority what they want. Not what a minority of voters want.
We do not live in a strict democracy. It is a democratic republic. The general public does not vote on measures. We vote for leaders and lawmakers. THEY vote for measures. Sometimes this means laws are created which do not have a majority of public approval. The reasoning is that lawmakers spend more time learning the details of proposed legislation than the general public. This system is not perfect, but it is better than a strict democracy which would require the general public to vote directly on every measure, and be very cumbersome.
