The “left” is trying to fix the system and has been for a while. But the “right” has been shooting it down for a long time. Single payer got taken off because of Lieberman and a couple of other conservative democrats. That said, Obamacare IS moving towards “single payer”. If the mandate gets struck down by SCOTUS, how will people pay for the other parts of the bill? Universal health care is a reality in the US. It may take a few years but it will happen. Even the New Deal wasn’t done in a day or even years. It took decades for everything to be resolved and it still needs to be tweaked.

I don’t agree with Ron Paul on a lot of other issues including abortion. I love liberty more than Ron Paul does. But also believe health care is a universal human right (and I’ve dedicated to my life to making sure this happens in our lifetimes). I believe it is only when basic needs of humans, food, shelter, healthcare, education, are met that humans can achieve their full potential of life, liberty, and happiness.

Libertarian views are generally okay but the conservative party that Ron Paul has aligned with are anathema to freedom: they want to regulate what happens in a bed room, a woman’s right to choose, the use of chemical substances recreationally, and so on. Paul himself is fairly consistent about it except for views on abortion (if he cares about life so much, why not care AFTER a baby is born but not before?).

In short, I think Ron Paul would set this country back by a 100+ years and his solution is to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I also think Ron Paul is cheap. Americans are among the most privileged people in the entire world: we get SO much for paying so little in taxes. I’ll say that if you don’t like the deal you have in this country, leave. Isn’t that what liberty is about? Why ask us to subsidise your roads and air travel and sea travel and a ton of other things but yet refuse to pay for it? If you don’t want to pay for services. It comes as a package: I don’t care for or use many services provided by government but for the amount I pay I feel I get a bargain and I’m in the highest tax brackets. I give more to charity than Ron Paul does, I not only research drug discovery but I train MDs routinely, … so yeah, I walk the talk and my opinion is that Ron Paul is simply wrong. The world is becoming more interconnected and there’s no changing the progressive tide. Listen to FDR’s speeches and see why the New Deal had to be done. We need a new New Deal.

Isn’t that what “liberty” about? Or is “liberty” taking handouts from other citizens for things you use but not paying for it? Think of the government like any other private entity. Use the service (and every citizen in the US inevitably does), you pay for it. The only issue is whether you’re getting a good value for your money. I believe I do. In fact I think I’m getting a great deal, a bargain so to speak, and I’m in the 1%. I give more to charity than Ron Paul and I believe taxes should be increased. We need to subsidise all those people in those red states who only give back 80 cents for every dollar they take in (the people in many of the coastal states give $1.20 for every dollar they get back).