Healthcare thoughts.

Someone asked my views about about universal healthcare, so here it is.
It's not really very nuanced, but I have a few basic bullet points.

• If you want to know what governmental health insurance will be like, look at Canada, or the programs our government already has in place: the VA hospitals/system, medicare, and medicaide. Not pretty. Underfunded, inefficient, basement quality medical care.

• I think that government should provide healthcare insurance for those who haven't or couldn't get it on their own, or for whom it is prohibitively expensive. For those who say 'everyone would go for the government package': 1) bullshit. See above. 2. If their healthcare cheapness and availability forced the insurance companies into digging into their obscene profits and lowering their prices to be competetive, that can only be a good thing.

• I think that laws should be written forcing insurance companies to insure everyone who wants insurance at a reasonable price, regardless of pre-existing conditions.

• Insurance companies should benefit patients, not their stockholders.

I'll post anything else if I think of it.