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George F. Will: Arizonans can put brakes on universal health care
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I also believe that there should be a government operated system of health care that would provide complete and competent health care to any and all persons who desire to use it. Even exclusively or in conjunction with private health care.
Public health care can be justified as constitutional under the "general welfare" clause just as much as any other government services that we have.
Only a government health care system where no one is discriminated against could have a national data base of information the could provide for giant leaps forward in medical care.
You're asking for complete and utter Goverment control over people's lives. Wake up dude
And I severely doubt that they refuse to give people care. Here in the US, however, the only place some people can get care is the emergency room--which is far more expensive than the doctor's office. So instead of treating them cheaply, we treat them (after their long wait in the emergency room) expensively.
Sounds stupid? It is.
For people used to private health care, going to a universal health care system will be a life threatening and unpleasant shock that will not easily be remedied.
All that has to be done to bring health care costs down is to cut the middleman, the insurance company, deregulate the medical system, and allow competition. If the medical establishment and Big Pharma had their government protected monopoly removed, and all health care professionals were put on "equal grounds" we would see prices going down.
Also, MD's would have to really prove themselves honestly on their own merits, compared to other types of health care professionals, instead just on their government granted authority.
Everyone should ask themselves "is healthcare for all so important that I'm willing to give up another 20% of my income to foot the bill for it?" and "How healthy is it for a Society to develop into one that is completely dependent on Fedzilla to provide a basic human responsibility like providing for the healthcare of one's family?"
Let's not lose faith in ourselves and pass responsibility to the Government
Before that you could go to your doctor anytime, or even get a house call.
More importantly the problems people speak of here can fixed by with small changes or tweaking.
Lets NOT destroy healthcare and replace it with an abomination.
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I saw much of this during my years working in health care.
The focus needs to be on the individual's health--and doctors need to be paid based on how healthy their patients are. Doctors in England get paid a bonus if their patients give up smoking.
Health care in the US has issues, and it needs a major change. Hopefully we'll see change soon.