Beyond the Stigma: Why Socialism and Healthcare Reform Are Essential for Americans

To attach the term 'socialized' in front of any term in America is to stigmatize it with a negative allure. This is because most Americans are poorly educated and don't realize what socialism is, was, or does. The basis of socialism has always been workers' rights over production. However, most people see socialism as totalitarianism, where the government controls every aspect of production... which is the opposite of socialism.

What socialism really does is provide a valuable service for society, by society, or more accurately, by the taxpayers. If not, the entire police department, fire department, library system, and U.S. mail distribution would all be up to the 'free market' to provide. The point of having state-sponsored amenities through taxpayer initiative, such as these, is for the benefit of society (everybody as a whole) on behalf of the individual.

It only makes logical sense that healthcare should be no different than the government providing services like they do for the police, the fire department, the library, or the mail. This is also how every other industrialized nation provides its healthcare at a cheaper cost with better results. However, this doesn't make wealthy plutocrats who own the major pharmaceutical companies and health care insurance companies billions of dollars in profits.

What makes healthcare unique is that it is not a desire-based service; it's a necessity, which creates a guaranteed profit for the market, but an ethical dilemma for society. The proper course of action is shown with a history of success through other nationalized healthcare systems, however, just as The War on Drugs is Class Warfare testifies, calling a nationalized healthcare system socialized is a way for the elites to attach a negative stigma to a public policy model that is for the individual's benefit and make them 'vote' agains their own self-interest.

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