Is Socialized Health Care Fair?

According to the IRS more than half of all federal individual income taxes are paid by the top 5% of taxpayers. In fact over the past 25 years the federal income tax bill paid by the wealthiest Americans has doubled - but has shrunk for all others. We are rapidly becoming a society where a very few pay the greatest part of the cost of government, and everyone else enjoys the benefits. And Barack Obama seems to want to make it even more so.

A socialized health care system that Obama wants to implement would ultimately result in "health care rationing" because the demand would skyrocket and the government would need to step in to ration health care. That means a bureaucrat will decide when you can go to the doctor and for what. Your health decisions and that of your family will no longer be in your control.

Look at Hawaii, for example. They tried a socialized health care plan to cover children, and it failed after only seven months due to overwhelming costs. If a universal health care plan couldn't even work for the children of Hawaii, how can we expect it to work for the entire nation?

I'm far from wealthy. We are a family of four living on an annual salary of $55,000 and we pay almost $9,600 a year for health and dental insurance. So believe me, I'm all for a "free" health care system. But there's no such thing. Someone has to pay for it and I don't believe that burden should fall on just 5% of taxpayers just because they happen to make more money than the rest of us.

Obviously health care premiums need to come down so that everyone can afford it. But it's something that EVERYONE should pay for. Not just a handful of people. If everyone paid their fair share, premiums wouldn't be as high as they are. But currently we're covering the cost for illegal immigrants and welfare recipients. It really upsets me that I have to pay nearly $10,000 a year for health insurance when so many are getting it for free. So I can only imagine how the "wealthy" Americans are going to feel when I'm no longer paying anything and they're paying for my health care.

Yes, you do have a right to health care, just as you have a right to food and shelter, but you have no "right" to force others to provide these things for you.