If this passes there is no going back. What do we stand to lose? – Research for starters. Right now we pay a high price for research due to the fact that the cost has been shifted to us when Canada and England nationalized healthcare (where a lot of the savings for them came from). Who will pay that cost? Perhaps no one… Second – Our top Doctors and researchers will leave for greener pastures, and who can blame them. Costs will be cut, and they are a lot of where that cost cutting will occur. Our premier hospitals are just that because of the system we have now. Where will the incentive be for a hospital to maintain top state of the art equipment and people if this fallacy of a program comes to be? There won’t be one. Where will you go when its do or die… well, in Canada and England its to the USA if they can afford it. That or perhaps die waiting… Some have. Where will we go? Mexico? Brazil? India? Where…
Sure there are people that can’t afford insurance, but there is NOBODY in the US that is denied healthcare right now. NOONE. People need to be made aware of what’s available, and yes there are things that can be done so more people CAN afford insurance and healthcare. One place to start is Tort Reform… ahhh, but nobody it talking about that. Why? Because most of the people debating this right now are Lawyers, and that THIER pocket your talking about with tort reform.
People, there is no such thing as something for nothing… and what you’re really talking about with this is trading our something for nothing. If you think government can do a good job running healthcare may I suggest you go and visit your local Social Security office, a DMV, or perhaps take a trip to any of the numerous other government agencies that are there to serve you and see just what it is you might expect.
