HEALTHCARE FOR ALL REGARDLESS OF EMPLOYMENT OR MONEY

A national health care plan is essential and has been wanting for many years now. Unfortunately, the plan that is now being formulated is based on the payment of premiums. It is curious that in about three days time, billions were doled out to Wall Street and to corporations, yet Congress is telling us that there is no money for health care. I find this revealing of a lie. There is abundant money to provide health care for all. To require a premium payment particularly at a time when so many are unemployed and have lost their very homes seems outrageously stupid and oppressive. At any rate, for years I have wondered why health care provisions are linked to employment.  A person can get health care coverage if they are employed, but not when they are unemployed. If a person is employed, obviously they are healthy enough to work every day, so it would appear that health care needs would be less. If a person is unemployed, surely the money to buy enough healthy food and other things needed to maintain good health is not there. So, it makes sense that health care provisions are more critical when a person is unemployed. In this country we need to get past this linking of health care to employment status. It makes no sense at all. We are behind so many nations who have long ago created sound health care provisions and their citizens have been the beneficiaries of such plans.