Single-payer health care - socialized medicine - or a viable alternative to the run away cost of healtcare in the US? In the US socialism is a bad bad word and even worst concept for a governmental change. American value independence and tend to not want too much govenrment intervention; unless of course a lot of money is involved and we are on the receiving end.

Recent events have shown that even the staunchest Capatialist can't resist free money or getting a little something for nothing if the opportunity arises. perhaps it is more surprinig that is is often the small buisness man or family that tries to hold to the values of independence, only to be decieved by big business into protesting changes that would benefit everyone.

Many people are under the impression that universal healtcare would casue them to have to pay more for to take care of the irresponsible individuals that do not have healthcare of their own; however, recent studies, show that is is common practice for businesses to pass their losses on the paying consumers, through higher premiums and fees. These same companies, accept generous funds from the govenment, including tax breaks for their preceived lossses, selling of the debt to debt collectors and requires hospitals to cut standards of care to increase profits. These companies will also tell you that Single-payer health care will do exactly what they are currently doing in the name of shareholders.

Single-payer health care is describled as by Wikipedia as:

According to the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus, a single-payer system is:

An approach to health care financing with only one source of money for paying health care providers. The scope may be national (the Canadian System), state-wide, or community-based. The payer may be a governmental unit or other entity such as an insurance company. The proposed advantages include administrative simplicity for patients and providers, and resulting significant savings in overhead costs.

For the most part the US is already an unoffical practioner of Single Payer Healthcare as the majority stake of the healtcare Industry is controlled by a few large companies and the United States govenment (we the people).

Competion in moderation, like everything else can be very beneficial to all involved. The human spirit has demonstrated time and again that in the face of crisis we can only succeed by pulling together, and working on a social level for the common good. Unfortunately, many people think that common good is expressed by rises in the stockmarket. Indeed the Market has creted many millionaires, and a hundred times more debtors.

What some people veiw as Socialism, others see as community, what some see as bleeding heart liberalism, other see as common humam decency. Moderation is the key to the sucess of the human race, like all ISMs, captialism and socialism included. We need balance, when the Market or any part of society is skew by greed, society suffers.