A basic human right

I am very passionate about health care. I believe health care should be a basic human right. Our current system is completely immoral. Denying people coverage in order to make money is completely wrong. The system is completely backwards it works for the people who don't need it and are healthy and not for the people who need it the most. People want to talk about capitalism and when talking about this issue people like to spout words like "socialism" and "communism", they say a government run system would be these things. But when human lives are at stake, money is not what should be the priority. The system makes money by denying people, and preventing the sick (preexisting conditions) from obtaining health care because they would be a financial liability. This is criminal and immoral! There is something fundamentally wrong with this concept of capitalism over human lives. If I had my way I would want complete socialized health care in a way that would be uniquely American. By taking the good things from systems in countries such as; Europe, France, Switzerland, and Canada. I know these systems are not perfect, but frankly they are better than our system. We need to take the things that work for these countries and compile them to create a system that works for America. Now I realize that this most likely will never happen because people have misconceptions about other health care systems and they believe they belong in Communist countries. So, I am willing to support a compromise because we have to start somewhere because are current system is a complete failure. The number one reason people claim bankruptcy is health care bills and many of them have health insurance, so you can imagine the ones that don't. A compromise would consist of making health care affordable. Which would require law makers to stand up to the corrupt insurance company lobbyists, who spend millions of dollars to buy the support of law makers. The second compromise would have to be a way for all Americans to be insured, and that would mean the government stepping in for those who can not afford it. The third compromise would have to make it illegal for companies to deny people because of preexisting conditions. We cannot allow the ones who need health care the most to be turned away!

Which candidate supports these measures as well as believing health care is a right? Barack Obama. Obama is going to lower insurance costs and save the typical American family $2500. This is how he is going to do this

• Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions so all Americans regardless of their health status or history can get comprehensive benefits at fair and stable premiums.
• Require hospitals to collect and report health care cost and quality data
• Reduce the costs of catastrophic illnesses for employers and their employees
• Reform the insurance market to increase competition by taking on anticompetitive activity that drives up prices without improving quality of care

Mccain attacks Obama by claiming his health care plan is going to have a negative affect on small business, this is not true. Here is what Obama is going to do to help businesses and insure that it helps the American people, not insurance companies and pharmeceutical companies.

• Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions so all Americans regardless of their health status or history can get comprehensive benefits at fair and stable premiums.
• Create a new Small Business Health Tax Credit to help small businesses provide affordable health insurance to their employees.
• Lower costs for businesses by covering a portion of the catastrophic health costs they pay in return for lower premiums for employees.
• Prevent insurers from overcharging doctors for their malpractice insurance and invest in proven strategies to reduce preventable medical errors.
• Make employer contributions more fair by requiring large employers that do not offer coverage or make a meaningful contribution to the cost of quality health coverage for their employees to contribute a percentage of payroll toward the costs of their employees health care.
• Establish a National Health Insurance Exchange with a range of private insurance options as well as a new public plan based on benefits available to members of Congress that will allow individuals and small businesses to buy affordable health coverage.
• Ensure everyone who needs it will receive a tax credit for their premium

Obama's healthcare plan is giant step in the right direction, which is making health care a basic human right