Embarrassed millionaires and the health care controversy

It isn't your fault if you aren't in the 1%, but it is to your shame if you give the uber rich power and support their causes to your economic detriment.

Universal health care, like universal education benefits all citizens. Early access to health care reduces the strain on emergency rooms and the resulting financial drain on hospitals. Not surprisingly hospital stock went up when the health care decision came down. Access to healthcare promotes health and wellness and reduces the losses that come from write offs at the ER.

The only people who come to this country for health care are Saudi Princes and the like. People whose access to money allows them access to what I keep hearing is "the best health care in the world." For the rest of humanity it just isn't so. It ma be the best, but if it isn't available it might as well not exist.

Without insurance one can hardly afford preventative health care. When one looks at medications costing hundreds per month it takes a lot of income to survive. When one needs those medications often employment isn't in the picture. Shall we blame the sick or fight for health?

The sad truth is that hard work and perseverance more often than not will get you to the finish line tired and poor. Never the less many people who may never even make it to the upper 20% of Americans in wealth thus earning themselves a position which puts them in the middle wealth wise, people who could actually benefit from universal health care, are against it. It has confused me for years, but  John Steinbeck understood it well:

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― John Steinbeck