Health Insurance or Social Credit ?

There are any number of possible state health-insurance plans. But they all have one thing in common; they pauperize the people.

Consider for example the CTCC's proposal, reported in "Le Travail" of March 2, 1956, regarding health insurance. (The C.T.C.C. is the Confederation of the Catholic Workers of Canada.)

"The plan which the CTCC favors is contributional, that is, it is financed by the beneficiary contributing according to his income, by the employer and by the provincial government."

Financed by the beneficiary

The beneficiaries here are the wage-earners. They are already too bad up since it is the very fact of their being unable to pay for medical care that is the motive of the movement for state health insurance. Nevertheless they will be obliged to pay for the health insurance programme.

Financed by the employer

The employers are those who pay the workers. At the same time it is they who set the prices of products.

All the costs of a producer must be covered by his prices.

If they have to contribute to health insurance they are, of necessity, going to include this cost in the price of their products.

The prices of commodities are going to climb above what they are today because of health insurance.

The cost of living will rise.

Who is going to suffer? The people. You, I everyone!

The standard of living is going to drop. Will this benefit the general state of health in the country?

Financed by the government

By the government; in other words, through taxes.

The consequence - the sum total of taxes increased because of health insurance.

And who will bear this extra burden of increased taxes? The people again. All the people. Even those who delude themselves that they are not paying them, because companies and firms, in paying them, make up their cost in the prices of their products.

State health insurance is a plan that impoverishes.

Compare Social Credit with state health insurance.

Social Credit increases the public's means of paying instead of decreasing them.

Social Credit give to the totality of the people the means of paying for the totality of services rendered to the people, and this includes health services.

Social Credit gives to the individual, as his birthright, a revenue. Every individual, whether or not he has a salary or a wage, will have this revenue. In each family this source of revenue will be proportionate to the number of the members of that family.

In other words, Social Credit offers the plan. that enriches.