[Ev Reeman]

The arguments against universal health care:

1. It will cost too damn much, a lot more than the projected costs offered by government bureaucratic flunkies.

2. Health care will be rationed.

3. No incentives for doctors of all kinds to become doctors or to stay in the medical profession because salaries will be capped.

4. Enormous taxes for everybody in order to pay for universal health care.

5. Patients will wait months and years for care. This will especially hurt the elderly the most. The elderly will die waiting for care.

6. No guarantee illegal aliens will not be recipients of health care that American taxpayers (you and me) will pay through the nose for.

7. Government bureaucrats will determine who will receive care and who wont.

8. Health care will no longer be determined by doctors and their patients but be run by a nameless faceless government bureaucracy.

[mbynack]

Excellent summary. I can add one more. “They tried it in Massachusetts and it’s a complete failure.” They’re dropping legal immigrants from the system because they’re looking at a 200 billion dollar deficit next year. Hawaii tried a program to provide healthacare for uninsured children. That went bankrupt because people who had insurance that would have otherwise qualified cancelled their health insurance to get the free state-provided insurance.

[The Pack Knight]

5. Patients will wait months and years for care. This will especially hurt the elderly the most. The elderly will die waiting for care.

Unfortuantely, that may often be by design. According to people like Peter Singer in an NY Times column, the government should have the right to decide when health care is worth the expense. The elderly won't die waiting for care, but rather because some bureaucrat decides that their lives aren't worth saving.

[CSM]

The only argument I need is:

1) When the government takes the responsibility of health care, the government has ultimate control of it’s citizens physical being.