Do you really believe the Krappt that you post and that your acolytes kudo here? That it really doesn't matter if private individuals make their economic decisions, or if an all-knowing government makes the decisions for them, ie through government health care? You really believe that the bottom line expense will end up being the same? What we needed to reform healthcare in America was less government involvement, and more free enterprise.
The republicans were on to a good idea ....controlling costs by having healthcare subject to the same free market forces that would lead a stingy old Iowa farmer to search out the best deal for his own health expenses, even if it entailed going to a dentist in Mexico. Health Savings Accounts were a great idea, and one that will undoubtably disappear with the advent of universal health insurance plans.From what I have read of the new Obamacare, it is long on government involvmenet, and short on free market reforms.
Life will always be full of the have and the havenots, and any economic system works best by having the have-nots aspire to someday be in the "have" encampment. Greed and envy are powerful economic forces. The USA could afford to have a safety net indigent care policy in place, which I believe we already did have, but cannot affort a cradle to grave government subsidized (ie, paid for by the current or future taxpayers) type of plan, purporting to give out unlimited healthcare. We need to keep compassion in our policies, but we cannot promise all things to all Americans just like we cannot promise all things to the world.
Rationing will always occur, and the fairest way is to ration by price, just like any other precious thing in life. The American system, of giving equal opportunity to everyone to make a fortune, has been a good one. Too bad we now lack a bonafide American president, and from many of the posts here, we also seem to lack enough true Americans. I think most of our liberal bretheren would be more at home in a Soviet state, than in America. At least the America that I grew up believing in.
