Universal coverage for Iowa-$550 million start up cost.

Democrats continue to demand universal health insurance coverage for all Iowans. Now we know the price tag. The Democrat proposal would require a 15% across the board increase in the state income tax or a twenty percent increase in the state sales tax. Since Iowa already is in the bottom five states for business climate and new business creation a massive increase a dramatic increase in the local tax burden would probably kill us off. While the destruction of Iowa's small business economy is a liberal goal, the rest of us know that such a result is bad.

Even worse, the Iowa Democrats, like liberals everywhere, do nothing to actually control the rising cost of health care. Increasing costs, coupled with linearly increasing civic dependency on the government payments at all levels of the health care economy, would assure an ever increasing tax burden to meet those costs.

The worst part, however, is such guaranteed coverage would actually increase the cost of health care by providing guaranteed state payment for medical services. Historically, guaranteed government payment increases the overall costs of the good or service that is guaranteed. Or, put another way, have you ever heard of “Medicare fraud”?

No wonder libs are so opposed to free and open debate, they’re unarmed.