It has come to my attention

It has come to my attention that I may sound judgemental about people who accept state sponsored insurance. Thes programs are designed for people who qualify and financially are unable to purchase their own insurance or work for a company or organization who cannot afford to pay them insurance as part of their compensation. Churches especially fall into this category. If I have come across this way, I apologize. That has never been my intent.

This is also NOT what Clinton and Obama are talking about when they say Universal Healthcare. What they are looking for whether immediately or incrementally is a single payer system. In this system all of the medical insurance companies would be out of business. You can't purchase more coverage if you want it. This is the same system that they currently have in Canada. That's why you have wealthy Canadians coming to the United States so that they have the opportunity to purchase medical devices and proceedures that they physically cannot obtain in Canada. This was something that was talked about extensively when I worked for Medtronic. There are limits on the number of devices that the government will ALLOW to be installed in their system. So, some people take their own money and come to the US. No waiting lists, no quotas, no being pushed to the back of the line because you don't NEED a pacemaker as much as your neighbor. What a crock! If I need a pacemaker so that I can have a better quality of life, then I want to be ABLE to get it.

The programs that BOTH democrats have put forward would immediately discourage people who can afford to purchase insurance from doing so. Even people who are able to acquire affordable insurance through their employer may be tempted to leave their insurance in order to obtain the "free insurance" from the government. Meanwhile taxes to pay for this new system increase and the economy plummets. It's a mess.

The end result is that you immediately have millions of Americans who had, or could afford their own insurance, but instead they have signed on to another government entitlement that will continue to grow, unchecked and unmonitored until it accelerates the US down the road to bankrupcy that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid have already started us down.