When it comes to people and their health it is no laughing matter. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is something we have all heard and know something about as Americans. The word life comes first in that line and we are responsible for our own lives, not government. Besides when the government gets involved, with what private industry can provide in a competitive way, it retards the processes. And when we are talking about people’s lives time is not a luxury we have. When private health insurance companies compete the price of one’s insurance will go down. According to the U.S Census Bureau 201,690 people were covered by private health insurance during the year 2006.
Then there comes the issue of what people fall outside of that group that actually have the need of government health care. Out of the 36,035 total in this document that fall over the age of 65 33,982 are already covered by Medicare or some type government health care. So they there is not really a demand socialized medicine. Less than a third of Males in general fall under the need of such services from the government. And in that same group 120,158 out of 145,689 are covered by some type of health insurance like private health insurance. Actually they are probably less likely to use those insurance policies that they do have. In married-couple families, women were covered mostly by their husbands totaling 187,788 and that rules them out. But the list goes on and on.
