Health Care Reform
Mar9
I say we scrap the Health Care Reform bill out there, and, instead, put the money into forming a new CCC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps) with the $1.2T, or whatever, providing new jobs to those in need of work and are yet “unskilled” workers today. The jobs will be to repave existing roads & highways, pave new ones, and lay ground for an infrastructure pipeline that includes broadband fiber for internet/telcom use. Then, “rent” back the lines to the telcoms, allowing them to use the gov’t lines and repaying some of the tax burden, and creating more jobs again. All the while, you create jobs, pave new roads, improve the national infrastructure, increase broadband saturation which will spur economic growth, put more disposable income in people’s pockets, which spurs economic growth, generate more tax dollars with more tax payers working, sell more cars for the new roads, which spurs economic growth, and require the CCC workers to have health care, which then ensures their families are covered, and puts the economy back on track so that everybody else is better able to cover their HC costs. And the program will pay for itself in a matter of years, and possibly even reduce the National Deficit.
The best part is this avoids pissing off the Republicans, and it works towards the ends that Democrats seem to favor: more people are covered than before, and you could still subsidize those who aren’t (the unemployed, on welfare, etc.) by repurposing the income from the telcom line rental fees that Verizon, Comcast, Cox, BellSouth, etc. will now have to pay for. This also opens up competition amongst the telcoms because anybody & everybody will be paying the same fees for line usage and are not limited geographically, at least not necessarily.
Charlie McElvy for Senate… no, PoTUS… in 2012!
