What The Stimulus Package Really Needed

The success of the United States can be summed up in one word: Freedom.

Where other countries barred its citizens from travel, or religious expression, or the right to choose their own career, or simply didn't provide the opportunity to take a chance at grabbing the golden ring, Americans always felt that they could do anything, given the chance.

Oddly enough, today's Americans lack a freedom found so common in most of the free world that it largely is thought of as a basic right in a modern society. With our economy grinding to a halt, now, more than ever before, it is time for us to join the rest of modern nations and provide this right to all Americans, as it will provide tremendous stimulus to our economy, improve our national welfare, and allow us, once again, to feel we can do anything.

That freedom, that stimulus, that spirit that will lift our nation right now is called national single payer health care.

Millions of us toil at jobs we hate because we need the medical coverage our employer provides, if they provide health care at all. We settle for less because we need the safety of a health care system that requires outrageous copayments, excludes preexisting conditions, and still leaves millions of people uninsured.

Imagine a country where we could once again say "I've got this idea..." and take on the challenge of going out and starting our own new businesses, moving on to new destinations, to new destinies, without the fear of being wiped out by an accident or illness.

That's the kind of stimulus America needs and deserves today.