Universal Health Care isn't Worth Our Freedom

Wall Street Journal ^ | 07/15/2009 | Thomas Frank

[fiscon1]

People who seek the services of auto mechanics want car repair, not "auto care." Similarly, most people who seek the services of medical doctors want body repair, not "health care."

We own our cars, are responsible for the cost of maintaining them, and decide what needs fixing based partly on balancing the seriousness of the problem against the expense of repairing it. Our health-care system rests on the principle that, although we own our bodies, the community or state ought to be responsible for paying the cost of repairing them. This is for the ostensibly

[george76]

Hoyer:

No one would vote for ObamaCare if they read the bill

[SeeSharp]

Thomas Frank is the same Journalist who wrote What's the Matter With Kansas? A book in which he pondered the question of why so many ordinary middle class people vote Republican when, according to Frank, it was in their interest to vote with the left.

What puzzles me is why anyone who believes in the market would vote Democrat.

[jwparkerjr]

A large part of the problem with health care is the same as it is with auto insurance. People who don’t buy insurance push the cost off on to everyone else. In Florida more than 25% of the drivers are not insured, despite the State’s best efforts to make sure everyone who drives is covered. It’s even worse with medical insurance.

As long as people can decline to buy medical insurance and still get taken care of by the greatest medical system in the world they will continue to do so. It’s just human nature, especially to a liberal!

Those who do have insurance, or are paying out of pocket, have to pick up the tab for everyone else. Until they come up with a way to make the pools of insured bigger, much bigger, it’s not going to change.

Talk about Captain Obvious!

[SMARTY]

‘Universal Health Care’ along with the laughable and dangerous ‘immigration policy’ failures here will turn America into the sewer of the Western Hemisphere.... We are WELL on our way!

Even in MY small town USA, the evidence is glaringly obvious!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Every day you learn of some poor unfortunate family where someone is very sick and their medical bills are piling through the roof. The community always pulls together with fundraisers, jars at checkouts, etc. to help those families out. I think America is fully capable of helping our own.