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Originally Posted by 88Racing

Just thinking

Fair-flat tax everyone and everything 12%.
No socialized medicine.
Tax breaks/incentives for corperations who bring jobs and or products back to USA.
The mortgage idea.
Any businesses in USA can't bank over seas. NAFTA countries only.

Just some thoughts.

Lars

the only one I don't agree with is socialized medicine... the whole use of "socialized" is a political clique (sp)

I believe that healthcare should be a right and not a privilege. as long as healthcare is a business and not a service its going to continue to take advantage of people in the name of profit...
Did you know that Fire departments started out as a business venture. Funded by insurance companies to respond to fires of their policy holders and hopefully reduce the amount of loss. so if you didn't have that policy then you watched your house burn down... At some point government decided we needed to provide this valuable service to everyone regardless of their financial status.

We already have a socialized (meaning ran by the government) medicine. its called Medicare, Medicaid, and VA health care etc...
I do not know what the end solution is, some sort of combination of a socialized system and a private system.. like exists with medicare... you can purchase a supplement plan for more benefits, less out of pocket etc... the key is that everyone is qualified for the plan and pays the same premiums
#1 cause of small business failure is due to medical expenses
People say they don't want government deciding if they should get medical care.. (it already does, see above) How is that worse than the system currently in place? Right now you have insurance CEO's and other corporate types deciding if you health and life is too costly to their bottom line... (many cannot even qualify for private health insurance) Tell me how that is good for patients?