“Pay or die healthcare”? You should work for the Obama administration. I’m sure, however, that as a dedicated socialist you donate your time to your ‘employer’ and ask for no money in return.
Socialized medicine provides less in return for more money than your ‘pay or die healthcare’. The truth - with which your type are only loosely affiliated - is that no health care system covers everyone. Any country that has socialized medicine will confirm this: they use ‘death panels’ and ‘wait lists’ to decide who is worthy of the limited resources available. And because these systems are run by governments, which are naturally inefficient, they have all the problems associated with government enterprises: poorly-educated and unmotivated employees resulting in bad care and unsanitary conditions (such as the staggering number of infections contracted by patients in British health care); slow service; too many people trying to get that service at once (hence beds stored in hallways in British and Canadian health systems, or patients dumped or refused treatment). But even worse, once the government takes over responsibility for your health, they have to start telling you what to do so they don’t have to take care of you. Thus you get “'elf & safety” services, like in Britain, which regulate such tiny things as moving office chairs (doing so requires a special worker, lest the average worker harm themselves and require some of the limited available medical attention). You get the government regulating your diet (such as current plans in the US to federally regulate salt intake, and soda intake, or the cities that have begun refusing to allow certain restaurants to operate in certain areas).
I realize it’s ‘progressive’ and ‘enlightened’ for you to snipe at our health system - which, incidentally, is the best in the world, even with all its flaws - but if you’re going to propose an alternative, shouldn’t you propose one that is BETTER, not one that is PROVABLY WORSE? But of course that’s impossible, since the free market provides the best health care possible, to the most people possible … which points up your real issues. You don’t want better health care. You just have an ideological aversion to the free market.
And the best thing about that is: all the problems with our health care system can be attributed to government’s involvement in it! Before we started creating government-run medical systems like Medicare, our health care was running fine. It was cheap and readily available. But as the government got more and more involved it got more expensive and harder to obtain - because that’s what happens to every service that is separated from the feedbacks of the market.
Now we have the ultimate stupidity of FORCING EVERYONE TO BUY INSURANCE. Brilliant! It’s insurance that’s the whole problem - people using insurance to pay for regular health maintenance (or using the ER for the same thing, because their insurance allows them). But since the insurance industry wrote Obamacare (and gave massive funds to the Democrats and Republicans who supported it), we don’t hear about that. We hear what a tragedy it is that some Americans chose not to buy insurance, and that became the problem government had to ‘solve’.
You have the utter gall to strut around like you’re some intelligent person, when you utter such nonsense?
