"Public Health" Argument for Universal Healthcare
What I haven't heard more of during the debate over preserving/repealing PPACA and one that should almost certainly be at the top of the list of reasons for not only preserving PPACA but also eventually expanding it to ensure universal health care is ensuring the most effective management of outbreaks of diseases with the potential to quickly kill large amounts of people. This is something that I would think that this would be even more important given our recent experience with Ebola in this country which, thankfully, wasn't as bad as it could have been. Come to think of it, this is also a great argument for reforming our nation's labor laws governing sick time and usage thereof. All too often it seems that people try to "tough it out" and don't go to the doctor when sick and, what's even worse is that they usually end up having to go into work anyway despite being ill because their jobs don't allow them to be sick without the very real possibility of them being terminated (which everybody in their right mind, of course, seeks to avoid). IMHO we need to ensure that people, when sick, can take the time off that they need and, most importantly, have access to treatment if needed, to quickly recover and avoid spreading illnesses around. The ability to stop the spread of a communicable fatal disease may rest on the ability of healthcare workers to diagnose and isolate infected individuals, some of whom simply may not seek treatment if they don't have access to health care and they may wind up spreading the disease to others by showing up at work- because they have to in order to keep their jobs.
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Guess you can say they are "pro-disease spreading", at least until they or somebody they care about gets something like Ebola or worse.
I guess that the GOP thinks everything is ok as long as at least a few people in this country are "strong" enough to defend it should somebody try to actually invade us. I didn't think about #2 but, yeah, why wouldn't that make them happy? But then again, they've demonized taxes so much that people tend to respond pretty reflexively whenever you get to the discussion of how SP will actually be paid for. Years and years of deprogramming about taxes alone are probably going to be necessary to condition people to accept SP.
