Level 8 Chapter 2 - Universal Health Care

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Mike Gravel - A minor contendant for the Presidency - on health care.


One of the most important domestic we face today is, of course, health care. In fact Harry Truman, right after the second World War was it. Yet We still don't have universal health care for all Americans. And this is something that can be if we're able to the right plans. Presently, most of the proposals that what we to do is charge business more, them to pay the cost of health care for their employees. And then let people go out and pay prices for insurance companies. The Massachusets plan is of that order. That's wrong. That's going the wrong way. What we have to do is have a system where everybody in the country gets a voucher. You just for it; you don't pay for it because we're going to pay for this by a sales tax. Now, what the voucher will do will permit you to have a of your doctor, your hospital, you it. We'll then computerise the medical history of every single American so that, of where you are in the country, you'll be able to go to a doctor and he'll be able to out your PIN and he'll have access to your records. Then he'll have to make . This is the way the VA does it and I get my meds from VA and I see how wonderfully this program works and how it really does the paper and the cost that the papers . I don't think we need to taxes in order to provide universal health care; all we need to do is to make it considerably more than it is right now. 30% of it goes to paper and not to health care which is what we need to have. And so I would think that we should a voucher system. Stay away from socking it to business, because this is not their job. What we need to do is to business so that it's more competitive in the global and doesn't have to carry the cost of insurance for health care on its back. We have made that for 40 years and we have to stop doing that. And so I think that we can arrive at a plan that is a voucher plan where everybody recieves the same basic services and then if people want more, they can, of course, pay more insurance.That is what I a fair plan, and it's a universal plan and we need not raise our taxes to bring