Paul Hsieh in an op-ed. Thankfully, none of the major presidential candidates are proposing such a system:
To guarantee “free” health care, a government must force the individual to pay for everyone else’s medical care and limit his freedom to pay voluntarily for his own. With bureaucrats deciding who receives what, the individual is therefore forbidden from spending his money according to his own rational judgment (and the advice of his doctors) as to what’s best for his health. When a government forces people to act against their own interests, it’s no surprise that the results are misery and death.
Related posts:
- The RUC, medical home and the specter of single-payer
- America’s failed attempt at a single-payer system, the Indian Health Service
- Single-payer in Sweden: A cautionary tale
- Single-payer: Does it increase mortality?
- Americans won’t buy single-payer
- Gawande on health reform: "It is not single-payer"
- The public isn’t convinced about a single-payer system
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When are doctors going to face the fact that universal health care is coming whether you like it or not? Then doctors become EMPLOYEES like everyone else….oh my….
Most doctors are employees now. What they don’t want, and you don’t want if you are to get sick, is for them to be completely under government control–whether as employees or piece-work slaves of the government.
Nothing is inevitable, except death and taxes, until it occurs. Universal healthcare has been “comming” since my grandfather was my age.
girlvet…you are worse than a simpleton. Who would wlecome a big load of crap at their doorstep? And obviously you are another “Its just a job, like sanitation or pumping gas”.
Ok, so what’s the education level of your average gas station employee? Or your average sanitation dept employee? Let them stitch up your head or diagnose your temporal arteritis.
HAve some repect for years of hard work, study, and commitment for a change.
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