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Originally Posted by DaddyHalbucks
Healthcare isn't "free" anywhere. Somebody always has to pay for it.
The questions are:
1. Should the taxpayers have to pay for everybody else?
2. Is the fraud and poor care offset by the benefits of government management?
3. Can the government manage healthcare better than the free market?
I say NO to all.
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1) They already do. The question is will we save money by having everyone receive preventive care as opposed to the uninsured showing up in emergency rooms like they do now.
2) See #1. The poor are already cared for via medicaid. The rich can get whatever they want, it's the people in the middle who are at the mercy of whatever coverage their employers decide to offer or whatever HMO they can buy a policy through privately.
3) Yes absolutely. If the government was managing healthcare their job would be to....drum roll.....wait for it.....
PROVIDE HEALTHCARE.
The free market is there to make a profit, the easiest way to make a profit is to collect your premiums and then deny you care.
If the government does a bad job of running healthcare, we get TO FIRE the people in charge, once every two years.
If your HMO does a bad job running your healthcare, guess what you get to do?
Take it up the ass. They're exempt from lawsuits, you have no recourse, they deny treatment and you die.