Re: Health Care Nanny-State to the Nth Degree

buck12ga wrote:
This is my take only, your mileage may vary. If you don't like what I say, you will not convince me to change my mind. Just go ahead with the insults up front. No need to gob up the page with a lot of unecessary text, insults only, please.

Insults? Why would anyone insult you, Buck?


I have become a believer in socialized medicine. I don't believe the propaganda that tells us how awful the Canadian and European healthcare is. Look, free market healthcare is something of a failure, in this country.

It didn't used to be that way. The only evident failure is control of skyrocketing costs, and that problem is directly related (IMO) to the socialization of health care, both privately and publicly. When individuals cease to concern themselves with what they're buying and how much it costs ("the insurance company will take care of it") the only result is inflation. Prices *always* rise to the point where the market says "enough" and competition tends to act to control price increases. When there is no competition there are no controls, and socialized medical care means no competition.


It's time for the government to step in and remove insurance and pharmeceutical company profits to get costs under control.

The moment profits are removed from the equation is the moment that research funding vanishes. It is the quest for profit that has driven medical breakthroughs throughout the past century, not altruism; and *especially* not the alleged benevolence of government agencies!


These industries have robbed us blind for too long. As long as their greed didn't go overboard they could justify it with the nonsense about research and develpoment costs. They have simply gone too far. America pays more, per capita, for healthcare, than any other country and yet, our care is substandard.

Sorry Buck, but I believe you have things backwards. The US health care system is one of the finest, if not *the* finest in terms of the science of medicine. The failing lies in the inflationary costs, not in the actual practice of medicine.


Ask anyone, nearly anyone, problems with healthcare and insurance are just about the worst problems we have. Allowing the corporations to continue running roughshod over the consumer will not improve things. Let's remove the bottom line, and restore healthy healthcare.

Nonsense. There is no pie in the sky. It's not the corporations fault that so many consumers are stupidly willing to pay them for the bogus assurance that they will be taken care of should disaster strike. The less wealthy will *never* be able to obtain better health care than the more wealthy, regardless of any tax-payer supported system. The rich purchase their care outside such systems.

Regards,

Tim Parker ... Samarra in a Kaywoodie all-briar lovat
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