Making America Healthy

IN AMERICA, we have Medicaid, medicare, and Obama Care. Three huge government programs, all ostensibly intended to do essentially the same thing; provide health insurance for all. Evidently, Obamacare will soon either be repealed, replaced, or revised. We shall see. A lot of people like Obamacare, a lot of people depend on it, and a lot of people, even if they don't like all of it, like certain features, and this includes the president elect. If Obamacare vanishes, over twenty million Americans will need something as good or better to replace it with. Even the most bureaucratically liberal person might be tempted to ask: would it be possible to combine these three programs into one good one? Or maybe consider adding Social Security to the pile, burning the whole pile, and replacing it with a guaranteed minimum income, or whatever its called, for all Americans? That idea is being floated in some circles. Studies are being done, presumably, to determine how much money would be lost or saved, and by whom. it make take awhile to figure it all out, and to determine how much of an income could be provided without losing money. It would simplify the system, you would think. some people would be happy to provide a basic guaranteed income for everyone, but would want to keep the other programs as well, which could get expensive, unless the United States decided to stop funding its armed force, and start relying entirely on NATO, Mexico, Canada, and Japan for its protection, which might not set too well with a whole host of independent minded Americans.