Health Care..I Don't Get It?

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I don't understand why Universal Health Care is a debatable issue, it should be a non-issue, an accepted right, a return for your tax dollars. Outside of the insurance companies, who can be against this and certainly insurance companies could adjust without hemmoraging? What company wouldn't trade a tax increase in lieu of providing health benefits to it's employees? Even a massive tax increase would be cheaper than paying insurance premiums and the cost of administration, and I don't see a massive tax increase if the plan is implimented without the insurance and drug companies trying to make profits from a gov't sponsord program. Whenever there's a Union contract dispute and threatened strike it's usually over health benefits. Layoffs? rising health care costs. Outsourcing? cost of providing benefits. Wouldn't a program of universal health insurance make all these things a lot less draining on our capitalist system? Then there's the cost of treating people without insurance who would have gone for care earlier if the fear of finiancial ruin wasn't in their face. Don't we want a healthier and more productive population? The gov't could provide basic health insurance and the insurance companies could offer supplimental policies, they do it with medicare, everyone can win. I don't get it.