You, my friend, will find yourself in a reeducation camp or insame asylum for saying that one day.
I’m not a Marx scholor so I’m not sure what Das Kapital may say on this point. But the modern commie believes that something is unfairly distributed if everyone does not have access to it. On the face of it that sounds pretty good.
The only problem is that there is a cost associated with that kind of “access” and it is higher than can be paid for by any amount of confiscatory taxation. So, what happens is that health care must ultimately rationed out. Uh, sort of like the present system does IAW ability to pay. And, of course, under the present system the quality and availability of care is exponentially greater than it could ever be under communism. Moreover, people in a Capitalist society are not eternally bound by their socio-economic status. They can, and do, move up if they have the smarts and ambition to do so. The so-called Millionaire Class, as a percent of population, has grown steadily and smartly since the birth of this nation. It follows that the lower and middle classes, as a percent of population, has declined.
But back to healthcare. Of course, with the establishment of communist health care, the quality of that care immediately begins to decline. It declines:
1. Because fewer of the best people choose the medical profession and too many of the least capable do choose it. It will get so bad the State will begin assigning people, any people, to the profession simply to make it appear to be working.
2. Because communism removes the incentive for hard work and entrepreneurship, there will be no incentive for people to excel. Ergo, more and more people will make less and less money. Finally, the State will step in and establish national wage rates for every conceivable job. And it will pay it. The only problem with that is commie treasuries have a consistent habit of ultmately become bankrupt because the poplulation is not making enough money to pay for basic services—let along things like iPods, Blackberrys or whatever. Heck, stuff like that will not even be invented because there is no incentive to do so.
I'm sure the English majors and identity politics faculties would protest, but Marx provides nothing to this debate except a pseudo-scientific rhetorical vocabulary founded upon a naive reductionist view.
It was Lenin who has all the intelligent things to say about actually operating a state "for the people".
Of course, Stalin got to make all the important real-world policy choices; i.e., who lives and who dies. Stalin is the model for real-world socialist leadership - progressively identify your enemies and then kill them - this is socialism that works!
I'm confident that Obama and his crowd will not stray far from the historical beaten path.