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Originally Posted by DaddyHalbucks
Leaving grammatical errors aside, this still makes no sense.
Smart Americans don't dislike universal healthcare because of jingoisms like "socialism."
The reason we oppose it is because it creates big government, which is inefficiant, costly, and prone to corruption. Lots of people will take from it, but only some will contribute to it. It's the tragedy of the commons. The cure is worse than the disease.
Let private charity provide more to the poor and indigent.
That said, the US healthcare system is broken. There are probably legislative fixes that can help it.
The free market system works very well most of the time. When it doesn't, you use legislation to tweak it. You don't throw out the baby (capitalism) with the bathwater (broker healthcare/ corporate abuses).
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We don't have a free market system right now. Hospitals are required to treat anyone with a life threatening illness, they are required to meet a quota of uninsured people, and "free" clinics are prevelant in poorer areas.
The Pharm companies have lobbied for laws that don't allow us to have a choice on our medicine, by making sure we can't buy drugs overseas. They sell drugs to us for $10 a pill while they sell the same pills to other countries for pennies. Since we can't buy from those other countries, they have a government made monopoly on the product. Explain to me where the free market comes in to play there? Or when they push laws in that make it near impossible for generic manufacturers to compete and force them to buy directly from the main manufacturer.
We can also take a look at Medicare plans that are voted in by the government. The ones that YOUR REPUBLICANS decided to put in place that doesn't allow the government to negotiate prices at all. So much for your party being the ones for capitalism, eh?
Our current healthcare system is not run on the free market system. It is run by the government. The big difference between national healthcare and our current system is that the ones getting the benefits are the insurance companies and Pharm companies that destroy the free market for an extra buck.
We have socialized medicine as it is. Your talking points just care to take the whole national healthcare = communist theory.