There is a Way to Pay for a Nationalized Health Care Program that Would Make Everyone Happy

By Ross Reck

Right now, nobody seems to be happy with President Obama's proposed health care program. The doctors don’t like it because it stresses cost containment, which would interfere with their individual prerogative to practice medicine the way they feel it should be practiced and it would also make it that much more difficult for them to get rich while practicing medicine. The pharmaceutical companies don’t like it because it means less profit for them. It’s the same with the hospitals. The taxpayers don’t like it, because it’s going to cost them a bundle. There is, however, a way to fund this expensive program that will make everyone happy - fund it with the profits from government run companies. The federal government already owns controlling interest in GM and Chrysler. Why not funnel all the profits from these two companies into the President’s health care program? [more...]