Essay Outline No Healthcare

Essay Outline: Why We Shouldn’t Have National Health Care (that is all-inclusive and mandatory) Points: 1. Encourages/Produced by the entitlement mentality of America – therefore, harmful to society 2. Forces Americans to pay expenses they do not incur, further lengthening the already great reach of the long arm of the IRS into our pockets, without the option of not paying 3. Idealistic, but open to abuse and very expensive 4. If flawed, unlikely to be changed thanks to our ineffectual Congress that rarely follows through. 5. Would screw up anything in our economy tied to the industry (Combine with #3?) 6. Alternative: 1. Optional Health Care 2. You only pay if you take part in it 3. Not universal – allows for other programs to remain active, and forces them to be competitive; what health care company could out-buy the government!? Support: 1. None Currently 2. True by definition 3. All national Health Care expenses would have to be absorbed by the government’s plan: Compare current to eventual costs. a. Source: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus07.pdf#121, pg. 392 and others 4. None Currently 5. None Currently