Universal National Health Care

Dear Congress (wo)man,
I would like to take this time to really open your eyes to the access to health care in this beautiful nation we call the United States of America, or rather, the lack there of.
Generally speaking, Americans prefer by a 2 – 1 margin in an ABC News poll an universal health care system over the current patch work of employer-​self-​paid-​Medicare system we have now, if you can even get insurance with preconditions.
And while states like Massachusetts are doing or proposing universal health care, it is generally an expansion of coverage rather than an overhaul of a system that is not working efficiently.
You say, «why are we proposing this now in this time of ‘economic downturn’?» Was there a time in need of it. With record unemployment, citizens are becoming more and more uninsured from health care. Remember that during the presidency of FDR, he brought the New Deal to the US that brought relief such as Social Security and FDIC from the Great Depression?
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that we spend 12 billion dollars PER MONTH on the Iraq war
to preserve this nation that doesn’t have the kind of health coverage like other industrialized nations such as France, Germany, and Taiwan.
They ALL spend less on health care than we do (we spend 15.3% of GDP on health care). And we know our system is broken when we scramble to prevent 10% cuts to Medicare doctors to prevent them from refusing care to our elderly patients.
In my home country, Taiwan, for example, spend just 6.23% of GDP on universal health care and has one of the lowest administrative costs in the world. Everyone is issued a ID smart card that has all your chart in your possession and the pattern can be tracked for overuse to keep costs down. You say, «Well the care must not be very good.» I’ve had three surgeries in the past 5 years and I recently had one in Taiwan, cash paid since I am no longer a citizen and was still cheaper and better than what I had here for over $ 30,000 charged to my insurance.
Please take the time to write to YOUR congress (wo)man and share your thoughts.