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.
The biggest reason to be against universal health care for me is that it provides entree for government interference into every corner of your life with the rationale that it is “costing all of us money.” So what you eat, how you play, how much you exercise, etc. suddenly becomes the turf of “everybody” or government Nurse Ratchets - especially when you include “mental health”. Reading blogs may be harmful to mental health, and so on. Frightening.
In Britain people over 55 don’t get dialysis. I’m 56 and still work full time and pay for my own health insurance. Will they throw me off dialysis? Maybe. I’d be dead in probably 3-4 months.