I really liked a Cat's Cradle comment a while back that got me to thinking about paradigms.
Free, quality public education K-12 = American dream/birthright.
Free, quality public healthcare = "socialized" medicine = socialism.
Why is this?
Things the government provides: education, transportation infrastructure, utilities infrastructure, police/fire, military, legal infrastructure (laws, courts, prisons), postal service.
Just curious.....why healthcare doesn't fit in there?
Always found it interesting that for whatever reason people think business should bear this cost? Imagine if healthcare was publicly funded, corporate taxes left unchanged, and the cost of providing medical care taken off of the backs of business. Good lord.....thats a ton of money to reinvest in business or give back to shareholders.
