The Kitchen Cabinet PAC

When someone you love is in dire need of medical treatment, you don’t care whether health care is nationalized, socialized, individualized, or privatized.  You just want help.

However with over 300 million people in America, the quality of care and the availability of health care is completely dependent upon how we pay for it.   Presently, according to the Center For Disease Control about 58% of all Americans have health insurance.  This may give you comfort, and it may not.  What about the other 42%?   Those who are fortunate enough to have medical insurance, or who are making sacrifices to buy it for themselves and their families, are also paying the freight in premiums and in taxes for the millions who do not.

Congressional experts estimate that almost 50 million Americans are uninsured.   Within two or three years the government expects Medicare and Medicaid to make up 50% of all health care spending in the United States.  In other words, soon there will be more Americans depending on the system than are contributing to it.  A recipe for disaster.

Currently the Democratic- lead U.S. Congress and The White House want the U.S. Treasury to be the solution to  the shortage of health coverage in America.  Joining forces, President Barack Obama, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid  want to historically reform our health care system with a price tag of $1.3 trillion dollars, with the expectation that the bill could easily climb in cost to 2 trillion dollars in its first years.

Republican presidential candidate and former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich are warning conservatives throughout the country that the Democrats’ hand-crafted program will mean our children could be paying taxes TWICE as high as their parents.  Denmark is certainly a good model to look at.  Citizens of that country have nationalized health care, and individuals devote 70% of their income to paying government taxes.

There isn’t a generous woman in the country who wouldn’t want to insure that every man, woman and child in America could have all the health care they need.  The giant divide in approach here is whether individuals will be in charge of their own health care or whether we need the over-reaching arms of the government to be in charge.

Women can measure their own feelings about nationalized health care by contemplating whether they are satisfied with the way the federal government administrates other national social programs from Medicare, to Medicaid, to Social Security, to Welfare programs, and ask,

“Can we afford more?”

The solution to bringing health care costs under control lies between individual Americans accepting personal responsibility for their own health,  and making the business of health care insurance more competitive.