Another reason I'm being convinced that Universal Health Care is a good idea...
I have decided that Universal health care is a good idea. Not for the typical bleeding heart "we must cradle everyone in our arms and allow them to suckle on the taxpayers teats"-kind of approach, but ... we're already paying for it anyway. Just look at all these a-holes in the "Emergency" room that just have a cold or a splinter... never mind the illegals, homeless, etc.. Rather than having hospitals close because their Emergency Room is going bankrupt, we might as well drink the Kool-Aid and get it over with. Give everyone a basic level of health care (NOT illegals).
Now, I have another reason: atheism. I am an atheist (why aren't you?).
This article explains how the rise in universal health care in other first-world countries is just the security blanket that people need so that they stop praying to the Easter Bunny to help them win the Superbowl. That, and how atheists and agnostics are increasing in numbers at a crazy rate while theist are not. Yay!