Common Sense: U.S. Health Care at a Crossroads:: Is It Finally Time For National Health Insurance?. This item is unavailable.Common Sense: U.S. Health Care at a Crossroads:: Is It Finally Time For National Health Insurance?

Thomas Paine made a compelling case in his pamphlet, Common Sense, for people in the Thirteen Colonies to gain independence from England in 1775-1776. This pamphlet is also based on simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.

SIMPLE FACTS

The so-call free market in U. S. health care has taken us where we were not intended to become—number 10 out of 10 developed countries around the world in terms of unaffordability, profiteering, disparities, inequities, and decline of professionalism. Health care has been enveloped by the tentacles of large mega-merged corporations and Wall Street investors. Reform attempts over the last 60 years have failed due to the overwhelming use of targeted election campaigns and deregulation.

PLAIN ARGUMENTS

As other leading nations discovered long ago, we need a public system of
universal health insurance to ensure that the U. S. can provide health care to all
residents wherever they live and whatever their medical need and ability to pay. It means longer and better quality of life for you and your family. It can be paid for through progressive tax reform similar to the 1950s, bringing help for the labor market, the economy, improved health for our population, and savings with less bureaucracy and waste.

COMMON SENSE

National Health Insurance will provide insurance for all U.S. residents who pay for it with progressive taxation based on income. Everyone will be insured at less cost than now because it is public “not-for-profit” insurance with high standards for access and quality of care.

Government is instituted for the common good: for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness for the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men.

—John Adams, second U. S. president and one of our founding fathers