Should the United States Have Universal Health Care?

Universal Health Care likely means increases in taxes and unnecessary spending. It is a lack of faith in the principles of capitalism to think there are no solutions to health care issues within it. To illustrate this point think of a small community of around 100 people;2 within the community are doctors. Let's assume the average income is 30k making a tax increase of 10% equal to a rise of $3000/year. Even if the tax increase were only 5% that would be $1500 or $125/month per person. Incidently that could get you fairly decent private insurance. Given there would be a tax increase of 5-10% does it make more sense to have more or less control of one's health care? If one pays the taxes, the Government decides for you, if you pay for private insurance you decide about Health Care providers.

The next point in this opposition to universal health care is in regard to high hospital bills and ever increasing private medical costs. This is clearly and issue and has the potential to wipe out many families' savings. It does not mean a thoughtful fiscally conservative solution to the problem does not exist, and it is unreasonable to assume that such a solution does not exist. So what is potentially fiscally conservative solution? Government can regulate what isn't in its control; it has done this before with anti-trust, federal approval of drugs, federal oversight of building code etc. The Government does not have to have absolute control of health care to assist in a solution. Possible solutions include cost caps, legalized mandatory private insurance, co-op insurance, partially subsidized insurance, federal investment insurance and so on. The amount of solutions are as many as a creative bureaucrat can think of!