Let’s start out with the proposition that the government has no business paying for healthcare for anyone who is not employed by the government. We have Truman, a Democrat, to thank for a bankrupt idea. His administration passed the Medicare bill, to add more fraud and waist we now have Medicaid. For all the talk of the uninsured you’d think that at least a few people would mention that those who cannot afford health insurance already have it, and it’s called MEDICAID, remember?

        “Medicaid was created in 1965 through Title XIX of the Social Security Act. Health insurance is offered to people who would otherwise be unable to afford or have access to it. Medicaid pays for nearly 40% of childbirths in the country, and around 60% of elderly people's health care.” That’s a load of low-paying wage earners isn’t it?

        Note how much government healthcare already costs taxpayers. The U.S. spends over $2.4 trillion on health care (almost 17 percent of GDP), and the government accounts for almost one-half of all health care spending.

        In 2007 the Congressional Budget Office published this graph:

        It’ s wasteful spending and is only necessary because politicians and environmental kooks have destroyed the industrial might of American, put millions of workers out of high paying jobs. They live on cheap fast foods, obesity is now a serious medical problem. Iron workers didn’t have this problem, but so many do-gooders were so worried about their safety and lungs. Now those workers who could afford healthcare are working at minimum wage jobs at McDonalds.

        We already have socialized medicine, it’s called Medicare and Medicaid. In fact 23 percent of doctors are not accepting new Medicaid patients, and 18 percent are accepting only some. Serious legislative efforts are underway that will likely chip away at seniors' access to the private plans they want in Medicare.

         Instead of high paying secure jobs in manufacturing, the Democrats have been offering handouts in the form of taxpayer supported security blankets like universal healthcare. The Government Option will drain the economy by imposing higher taxes. U.S. companies are being crush by high taxes and burdensome government regulations, so much so that the Obama administration is having to prop up corporations that can no longer survive the onslaught of their insane legislation.

          The U.S. economy is in shambles, and government cannot create jobs. Whatever jobs are created by government for taxpayers are paid for by other taxpayers. Government jobs create debt not wealth. If it is profitable government should not be doing it, private industry should. During the administration of FDR the Tennessee Valley Authority [TVA] displaced private industry which could have supplied the electrical power and would have created thousands of real and permanent jobs. Commonwealth and Southern was driven out. Instead of taxable income from that private corporation, FDR created at taxpayer expense a Government option that not only reduced tax revenue, but cost taxpayers a great deal of money. Someone said, if the government ran a chicken farm a dozen eggs would cost $50. Call it socialized medicine, public option, or government option, whatever the name, it will not produce tax revenue, and it will destroy private sector jobs paid for out of insurance company profits. Government employees are paid for out of  taxpayer dollars. The cost of the premium is not the only costs that taxpayers will have to pay for healthcare insurance.

        Private enterprise and secure high paying jobs is one aspect of the freedoms of liberty for which good Americans died, and is the kind of liberty that Americans deserve, not government handouts, because handouts are not free, other Americans pay for them with their own sweat and headaches.

        Freedom requires that government get out of the way, get off our backs, leave businessmen alone to create wealth and create jobs, allow hard working people to prosper, and allow the less productive members of society to live their own lifestyle, but without taxpayer support. We have Medicaid in place that will pay for healthcare for those who absolutely cannot afford it. There are charities that ask for contributions from anyone who feels compelled to undertake the responsibility to care for the less fortunate.

        One final thought, if politicians think that socialized healthcare is such a great idea, then why do they intend to exempt themselves from it?