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Our proposal

Each county should provide publicly funded healthcare to anyone needing healthcare within that county. By having counties take financial responsibility for healthcare through a minimal increase in their tax rate, the Social Security crisis could be diverted because the Federal Government would no longer have a medicare or medicaid obligation.

Monkeysphere of Healthcare

Have you heard of the monkey-sphere? Researchers studied why primates band into societies of certain sizes. They were unable to develop a cohesive hypothesis for this phenomenon until they compared brain sizes. Different primate species with similar brain size had societies with similar numbers of members - the smaller the brain, the smaller the society. The results allowed scientists to develop a mathematical formula that would accurately predict the size of the primates’ social network.

When the formula was applied to humans, it revealed that humans develop social networks of up to 150. In other words, we conceptualize up to 150 people as personally human enough to deserve of empathy. This explains why people are indifferent towards others who are not in their network – why we are more concerned with our family pet than with the well-being of our garbage collector.

Political parties play off this research. They know individuals will not be overtly concerned with such things as the economy or access to affordable healthcare until members within the individual’s close-knit network is negatively impacted.

With an average of 2.75 persons per household, and 111,175,000 households in the US; approximately 2,025,000 households must be impacted before our political leaders will attempt to correct a problem.

The US population was estimated to be 304,059,724 in 2008. Approximately 18% of the population is without health insurance; and since families rarely insure only half the family, then 19,902,091 households do not have health insurance. Most people are relatively healthy. Even at a 10% illness rate, only 1.9 million households are negatively impacted by the lack of affordable healthcare. When current programs care for one-third of the uninsured, then 1.3 million households are actually suffering the negative affects of no health insurance.

We are slowly moving towards the breakpoint for a serious public outcry, which explains why politicians are showing concern. But, we are more than a half million households from any serious public outcry, which explains why politicians are still giving their greatest concern to big donor corporations.

Effective Protest 

Our elected representatives refuse to give American workers an economical single payer healthcare program. The best way to influence the political process is by impacting the profits of the corporate political contributors. In other words, boycott the companies that pay lobbyists to oppose your political position. This is a time proven method that often goes unused. 
  
How insurance companies make money
Health insurance companies make their huge profits by insuring healthy people and canceling policies on customers that get sick. Very few families actually need substantial medical attention (under 7.5%). The vast majority of people live long, healthy lives. So, while most people think they have good healthcare insurance, they never become sick enough to actually test the quality of their insurance product. 
 
Costly unused healthcare
How much does your healthy family pay for insurance?
$500 per month = $6000.00 per year
$750 per month = $9000.00 per year
$1000 per month = $12,000 per year
 
How much could you save each year by canceling your healthcare plan? 
  
Cancel Health Insurance as Protest
Ask yourself if your family is among the 92.5% of healthy families? Or, are you among the 7.5% of illness prone families? If you are among the majority of healthy families then cancel your health insurance plan. Minor medical bills could easily be paid out of what you save on not paying a monthly premium. And, encourage others to cancel their health insurance as well.
 
Look what happened to the financial industry when people began defaulting on their loans! The insurance companies can collapse too if enough people cancel their healthcare policies. They will have to release the healthcare industry over to government protection.
 
Furthermore, if you decide to end your protest, you can always re-enroll in your employer's healthcare plan. 
 
Think About It!