Healthcare not Welfare!

Catchy slogan, huh? That's because I stole it, sort of, from a local political campaign, "Healthcare not Warfare." A good lefty sentiment, but not on point for me, at the moment (anyway, it's a primary, and I'm not registered in either of the tweedle-dee/tweedle-dum parties). No, I'm still thinking about why it's so easy to cut benefits programs. Right, it's because there's always a (more expensive) entitlement program to catch people who can't get the benefit: like EISEP and Medicaid.

So the point is, let's get healthcare on track now, and not let the welfare system catch the people who fall through the cracks of our less-than-optimum healthcare system.

Doesn't it make more sense to manage ahead of time and avoid the crisis response system when healthcare as usual fails to provide? That's why we need healthcare, not welfare.