me too.

I really think there's more going on than meets the eye. The govt takes in enough money righj now to provide health care, but they do so much extravagent spending they are always broke.

in the US, in every county in every state, there is a dept of health and human services. You can go there for basic things, for free, no insurance required. they provide immunizations, all of that if that's your thing. It's been that way for years. If you really want full health insurance and really cannot afford it you just qualify yourself for medicaid, all you have to do fill in the forms. It's been that way for years.

The problem is not really access to medical care in this country, it's the cost of medical care and that is what needs to be dealt with. But it seems some people would prefer we just throw money at doctors and pharmaceutical comapanies. Personally I think thats a very bad idea. A lot sick people that come to this website, the majority of them, are sick from overzealous dentists or doctors using expensive mainstream medicine, vaccines, dentistry... people's health is worse not better a lot of the time when unnessary mainstream medicine is encouraged.

Right now people pay generally 20-30% or so of their income to the govt. When I was a kid tax rates were much higher, about 50% for people making over $40-50,000 a year. That is what my parents dealt with. they made a decent living. But when all was said and done after taxes we were far from 'rich'. We were a basic woking middle class family. A good deal of the time there was hardly any food in the house. My mom always had dinner on the table at 6pm but you never walked away stuffed and if you got hungry in between meals that was just tough. There were 6 of us, living on about 20,000 a year, after taxes, in the 1970's. With inflation as it's gone from then to now, you'd see a lot of people in the same situation today, but much worse if they raise taxes. Because things cost 3 to 4 times as much more now but wages have not kept pace.

A lot of industry has left the country because of high taxes. That also needs to be dealt with. taxes need to be ,lowered, not raised, employers need to be encouraged to pay more competitive wages to workers, not scared away by the tax man. Employer taxes go up substantially when they pay their employees more... unemployment insurance, workman's compensation to pay your hopsital bills if you get hurt or sick from your job, state and federal taxes, social security... employers are taking the hit all across the board, they pay a big part (and all of some of them) of all those taxes for the workers. In a lot of places in the US because of all the taxes and other requirements, employers will actually hire people for 89 days and then let them go because after 90 days the unemployment insurance and workman's comp kick in bigtime, and it's expensve. A lot of people do not have money for their own insurance because of the burden placed on employers by the government already, no other reason. Employers are afraid to hire and pay a competitive wage.