Healthcare or Jobs!

I am finding the issue of healthcare more boring than ever before. I have discussed this issue with many different people and gotten only a few different answers. The burning question that our revered politicians fail to answer is "How will it be paid for?".


The biggest problem for YEARS has been our jobs heading out of this country and with those jobs go the taxes that many people pay during their employment. Healthcare reform seems to be hinged on what can be done for those that have no jobs or those working for companies that offer no health insurance. In the long run, who will pay for it? The answer is simple, if you work, you will be paying for it! The government already skims from social security and anywhere else they can get large amounts of money that can be "borrowed" from. Well we all have already given money to social security that many of us will never see.

Is there another rabbit in the hat that we are unaware of? Perhaps the push on healthcare is to try to blind us from the fact that the politicians do not want to remove the tax incentives multinational corporations have received for creating companies abroad. After all many if not all politicians are financially connected in some way, to many of these companies.

It seems the louder I yell about jobs, the louder politicians bring up the issue of healthcare. I recently received an email inviting me as well as others, to watch a video about healthcare reform. We were also asked to respond with a video of our own about our need for healthcare reform. YES IT IS NEEDED BUT SO ARE JOBS!!

At this point my response goes something like this... Give me all the data on multinational corporations that are headquartered in the United States. I want to know;

1. What is the percentage of manufacturing facilities in the United States vs. foreign countries?

2. How much money (or tax breaks) is the United Sates giving to those companies that have more than 50% of manufacturing outside the U.S.?

3. How much of those foreign made products come back to the U.S. for sale that escape normal tax and tariffs that are imposed on foreign based manufacturers?

4. How much do these companies put into healthcare in the U.S.?

5. How much profits are these companies making BEFORE the bonuses are paid? After all bonuses cannot be paid unless the company is profitable and it is from these profits that the bonuses will be paid!

6. How much money will come from these companies for healthcare reform vs. the government (us in other words)?



Somehow I do not believe that I would get 75% of the above questions answered, if any at all!

Of course I would also expect that no response would be made of this blog which will be posted here, on my Facebook page, and sent in the form of a letter to the Whitehouse. People want healthcare and for most, as long as they can get it for free, they will be happy even if it does come from our taxes.

 Work on healthcare reform but do it alongside "job reform" as well.