Michael Moore and socialized medicine

[karlwig]

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The problem is that people believe every individual has a right to the best medical care money can buy. (How can you value a life?) The problem is, that there isn't enough money for everyone to consume the best health care money can buy.

Socialized health care would only benefit those who don't have any health care today (the poor). Everyone else (the majority) will see substantial decreases in quality and availability of their care once their employers stop buying coverage, which they would under a socialized system. Wages would not likely rise much in this scenario, but taxes most definitely will. So everyone who has a real job today will get less pay and worse health care.

I do think government should provide coverage for children since they can't provide it for themselves in a lot of cases where parents have other priorities.

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OMG. You should really try to study countries that have socialized health care systems.

One thing is for sure: It would benefit more people than a free market system. If you disagree with this, you don't know what you're talking about.

Now isn't it worth paying a little extra in tax to save people's lives? Oh I forgot, they're poor. Yeah, I guess we should forget about them then.

But really, even rich people could get so sick that medical bills would be too expensive, so I think your arguments are a bit flawed.

You say that since everybody wants the best health care, there isn't money enough to make everybody happy. "You can't put a price on a life".

Guess what. That's EXCACTLY why countries have a social health care systems. Everybody gets treated the SAME, since no life is worth more than another.

One more thing. Yes, it costs money, but it's just a matter of priorities.

For example, in the "socialist" country I live in, people with average income pay about the same tax as in the us. And still health care is free! How could this be? Well, we don't use 1/3 of our budgets on military. So if your goverment could just stop making wars for some time, you could afford free health care for all. Wouldn't that be great, instead of using that money on tanks? No?