It’s simple: Enact Medicare for all

SOCIALIZED MEDICINE is defined by The New Oxford American Dictionary as “the provision of medical and hospital care for all by means of public funds.”

Public funds are how this nation pays for — among other things — fire and police protection, the national defense, schools, libraries, highways, airports, trash collection and street sweeping. This being so, I cannot understand why single-payer, universal health care is anathema to Republicans.

Republican opposition to single-payer, universal health care cannot be justified because it is unconstitutional. The preamble to the United States Constitution states that, among other things, it was ordained and established to form a more perfect union and promote the general welfare.

Republicans generally profess to be Christians of some sort. If they were to ask themselves what Jesus would do in the issue of health care, Republicans could not defend their opposition to single-payer, universal health care.

Could it be Republican opposition to single-payer, universal health care is motivated by their love of the obscene profits that are made on the backs of the sick and needy under this nation’s current health care system? If Republicans could finally admit that greed is the driving force behind their opposition to single-payer, universal health care, we could finally end the never-ending debate about health care and establish a sensible system of health care for all.

It would be simple enough to move to such a sensible system since it already exists. It is called Medicare. Forget Obamacare and Trumpcare. Enact Medicare for all. RONALD GRENKO Albuquerque