If the government takes over, it’ll be worse:
Medical care won’t be so much provided as it will be dictated to you by your government.If you think that you have it bad now with your private insurance company, just wait until the Federal government takes over and must severely limit health care consumption in order to be able to pay for the care of over 300 million Americans.
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OK this one is easy to test. There are currently separate and parallel tracks that people with Medicare can choose. They can use regular Medicare which pays their physicians for tests without prior authorization, or they can use a Medicare HMO which is … an HMO. Which one denies more tests?
Fun with scaremongering! ‘Cause other developed countries can’t afford their healthcare … oh wait, they do.
I feel everyone in the usa should have health care.They would rather spend money on sending things to the moon or sending money to other nations.Take care of the usa first.There are lots of americans without health care its not right.
Other developed countries don’t afford their healthcare– at least not the high tech specialty stuff. They “save” money by reducing big capital expenditures on things like modern machinery, new hospitals, doing procedures after the line-item in the budget has been spent for the quarter.
If we stopped paying for all this stuff and left primary care unlimited, we would have a much more efficient system, just like Cuba.
Mandated healthcare does get scary though– think about how important govt lobbying gets to be for special interests– and how pork leads to strange spending priorities. I write a bit more about the implications of mandatory health insurance at:
Consumer-focused healthcare: Mandatory Health Insurance: Raising the fixed cost for health prior to the receipt of benefits
“There are lots of americans without health care its not right”.
It’s not right that I don’t qualify for food stamps, a free car, a nice free trip to
Disney Land, a nice free condo on Lake Michigan.
What a b!tch, this life is…
We will have unlimited access to primary care just like the Indian Health Service. Uh, wait a second.
Once again.
http://nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com/2007/03/tale-of-two-cancers.html
Two patients with the same cancer. Private patient gets cancer treatment, NHS patient does not.
Sort of the “control” group.
Anon 7:49 Am, could you even pretend to act like a grown up? I know that may be requesting something that is impossible, but just give it a shot, and see what comes of it.
Trips to Disney land and condo’s on Lake Michigan is about the sorriest comparison to health care I have yet heard. What is with you guys that you try to convince yourself that the majority of Americans REALLY can afford health care, and that we are just trying to convince you otherwise?
No, we can not afford 15-20K per year in premiums. No, we cannot afford 1,000.00 per month in medications and hell no I don’t have a condo on Lake Michigan, nor even a creek running through my back yard. I drive a 1991 Honda accord and we have NEVER been to Disney. so get off your high horse.
anon 7:27… but what about water? I pay a water bill. Thats not free. Nor is food. Nor is electricity, which in this day and age is necessary for life.
So the analogy is apt.
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