America Should have Single Payer Healthcare

I'd be a Libertarian if they believed in government grants for college, increasing the minimum wage, labor unions, and Universal Healthcare, or Single Payer Healthcare (Socialized Medicine if you want to you scary buzz words). For the sake of debate I'll only focus on healthcare. They claim they only believe in the Bills of Rights and the Constitution, so let me recite part of the Preamble to the Constitution; "WE THE PEOPLE of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Furthermore in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution refers to the "general welfare" thus: "The Congress shall have the Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States. . ." So we have taxes for our Military Defenses, but what about our Modern Day health concerns? What about those defenses? It seems to me that the easiest way to insure Tranquility and to form a more perfect Union, would be to make a healthier Union. Listen, no matter how Conservative one is one would argue through and through, until they're blue in the face if America deregulated our Fire Fighters, Police, Libraries, Post Offices, and Public Schools. All of which was not listed in the Bill of Rights, but all of which is federally funded and helps to make a more perfect Union. So why not Healthcare? Private Healthcare is a ponzi scheme, were only the healthy and wealthy can afford to be seen by a Doctor, (at least one that will give you the healthcare you rightfully deserve), but instead our healthcare system is based on money. Money that Doctors can get from you or your insurance, and giving you only what is provided by your private Insurance, not necessarily what you need to survive. As we approach financial cliff after financial cliff, and so on, I am reminded that health care, and the term "pre-existing condition" were a large chunk of my own financial woes. My wife has a terminal illness and we've sold her family house for pennies on the dollar due to the debt that her ailments generate. Nowadays she's too disillusioned to see the doctors, and frankly I don't blame her. Conservatives will say survival of the fittest. Which is a bastardization of Darwin's Theory of Evolution. According to Darwin survival doesn't go to the fittest, but to the species that's willing to adapt to change. In this sense of the word conservatives are a doomed species. Doomed by their ostrich in the sand thinking. By burying their heads in the sand and hoping for the best they accomplish nothing. Which is what they want to do to healthcare. Nothing. No regulations which would only led to Doctors, the healthcare industry, and the pharmaceutical industry charge what ever they want for the cost of their services. The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 was signed into law by President George W. Bush has highlighted what's wrong with the conservative and Republican thinking, when it comes to healthcare. It restricted folks on prescription plans to just a networks of providers, thus severely limiting their medical options. It restricted prescription drug choices, by allowing HMO's to create more formulary plans, and care other than emergency care was restricted to a particular region. Lately, the Republicans in Congress are trying to repeal Obamacare for the 40th time. While Obamacare isn't the Universal Healthcare I dream of one cannot convince the conservatives of this. Their panic reminds me of Chicken Little warning everyone on the farm that 'the sky is falling', which it's not. The sky is very much there, and is still made up of the private healthcare providers that make us all put a price tag on our bodies. President Obama's greatest problem with healthcare is that he showed up to this game of strip poker half naked. The public option being the clothes that he left behind. As Bill Cosby said, "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." That's what President Obama did with his healthcare plan. Now, it will be treated like automotive insurance, as you'll receive a fine for not having it. Democrats claim that costs will be made lower, but I'll believe it when I see it. We're the only western nation with no form of free healthcare. On average the poorest Canadian lives 3 years longer then the richest American. In the United Kingdom that number grows to about 5-7 years longer. In both nations even the conservatives wouldn't take their national health systems off the table, as healthcare (like police, firefighters, schools, libraries, and the post office) are viewed as basic human rights, and as well they should be. Conservatives claim that it would be a waste of spending to provide healthcare to everyone, (both rich and poor). However, I feel that the trillions wasted in failed wars, (including the failed drug war) are the wasteful spending, along with the alphabet soup of federal police agencies that plague our civil liberties. Admitted we need federal police agencies, but why do we need more than a dozen, when other western nations need at most two? I guess the answer would be checks and balances, but if that's the case why do we need more than three? In closing we need healthcare for all, and there are numerous ways to make it as to not raise taxes to the general public. One would be legalization and taxation of marijuana. This would not raise conservatives taxes at all... that is permitted he or she isn't going to be purchasing any cannabis. In addition to this shutting down a hand full of overseas military bases, and dismantling the ATF and DEA couldn't hurt either.