I was lying in bed, trying to get on with life here in Fitzwalkerstan, listening to some Rockabilly on my headphones when I noticed my wife was becoming agitated. I quickly realized it was something on the TV which was on but neither of us were really watching. I took my headphones off just in time to hear a woman's pleading voice crying, "It's just not worth it." In an instant I knew what was being refered to. The white people in the white coats acting so seriously anxious and concerned in the exact same timeslot where just a few short weeks ago my brain was accosted by Walker commercials. These were conservatives and they were railing against Obamacare.
"It's just not worth it." I didn't catch who it was from and spent about 10 minutes googling fruitlessly trying to find out. I can't get the phrase out of my head. I can think of many things that are "just not worth it" such as two wars, a bloated defense budget, tax cuts for billionaires, and bailouts for banks... But a healthy populace?
Right now healthcare in America is a crap shoot even for those fortunate enough to have insurance. You try to cover all your bets but you're never sure you're really covered for whatever woe might befall you. Health insurance companies are simply bookies holding all the bets and skimming their take right off the top. We gamble with our very lives and we pity the hardluck fools who weren't adequately prepared. Millions of people spend billions of dollars on this crap shoot every year and the only real winners are the insurance companies who increase their profits by denying coverage while raising rates.
Nationalized healthcare would put everone's money in one pool and cover everybody for everything. We'd still worry about getting sick, but we wouldn't have to worry about getting care. That's absolutely "worth it" to me.