CBS News is reporting the results of a CBS News/New York Times poll that says that the majority of Americans (57% of them, still not a resounding majority, mind you) would be willing to pay higher taxes for universal health care. My goodness! That almost sounds….European! Or even worse….socialist!
How could Americans be so vulgar? Maybe they are just desperate. After seeing what happens when a health care system based on free market principles actually fails because it really isn’t a free market. And when health insurance is based on employment and unemployment rises to 8.5%, perhaps even somewhat slow-to-adapt Americans get the idea that employment-based health insurance isn’t such a good idea.
If you are still holding out that state-sponsored healthcare isn’t such a good idea, maybe it’s time to reconsider. Being in the majority may be a good thing, just this once.
Summer Johnson, PhD