Given San Diego’s pension issues, has corrupt and inept as the insurance company’s may be, do you really think the Government is going to do it cheaper and better once the bureaucracy is established?
I don’t want to hear about the money could come from the war and be better spent, that’s non-issue, I’d consider that a given. However, that money barely scratches the surface. My question is, will you step up to the hard decisions or just pretend government healthcare is an endless mana from heaven.
It isn’t endless mana from heaven by any means but empirical evidence from nations which have lower GDP per capita than the US does shows marked improvement and satisfaction. France in particular has good health care, with superb doctors and isn’t at all technologically backwards. And all those same issues come up there too.
In the current system the decisions get made in a worse fashion: “what’s better for short term profit of insurance companies.” You see, they find it more profitable to deny things which could have long term benefits—because they might be able to kick the people off the plans first, and make it Somebody Else’s Problem.
Insurance system now has people who are actively vexatious in thwarting good health care (as well as actually liking overall inflation as it means more dollars flowing through the system), as opposed to a merely uncaring and plodding bureaucracy typical of government.
Taiwan, just jumped to a single payer system in the mid 90’s. They’re not a pathetic socialist country either. Japan has a national system too. It’s not just Europe.
The empirical facts are obvious that health works differently from most other businesses. It’s the reality of the world. The general supremacy of capitalism over communism is not catechism but a testable emprirical phenomenon, and we ought to judge the value of the ideology by the observed results.
Why do people get socialized medicine when they turn 65?
What’s so special about them that they deserve it?
If you told them, “we’re canceling medicare and everybody’s going to private insurance”, how many (especially Republican voters) would say “that’s a great idea, I can’t wait to have less expensive better medicine system, and get out of that terrible socialist POS”. I’d bet about three.
