I thought this part was especially good. With all the uproar over health care following the Supreme's decision this week, the facts of the situtation have been obscured.
The fact is we already had socialized medicine, and have for decades. What Obamacare does is shift around the control and add more inefficiencies to the process.
What we really ought to do is have a discussion over how to best handle health care in this country. What is not helpful is arguing whether we should or should not have a socialized system. That boat sailed decades ago, and it isn't coming back.
“What Obamacare does is shift around the control and add more inefficiencies to the process”
Bingo! It exempts undocumented workers, muslims, poor people and a host of others. I guess they plan on using the tax, er, penaly, er tax, is to pay the scores of obamaworkers to “administer” this plan into financial ruin.—Except that it already IS a Financial Ruin.
No.
The beast will kill me, or I will kill the beast.
Federal govenment is a time-expired experiment.
It grows out of control and over-rides the needs of the people.
It has to go.
/johnny
People will always be taken care of, however now with government forced healthcare, there will be no financial repercussions for those who truly can't afford it.
Life isn't fair and never will be, the only difference is when government gets involved, THEY decide who wins and who loses.
“Look: If hospitals can’t turn away the indigent sick, you already have socialized healthcare. Who’s going to pay the costs of that patient who can’t pay for himself? You are; “
I have always thought that was the basic problem with U.S. health care. That, and the need for tort reform.
A person should NOT be let of scot free if he gets emergency treatment. I can still see costs of his care being covered by you and me through our taxes if he dies with no estate. Also, the cost of a plain burial. That is the cost of living in a humane society.
Other than that, his estate and assets should be utilized to pay his legitimate bills. Maybe he’ll be in debt for a long time. Perhaps family or friends will help, he’ll inherit something and use that, a charity may help out, whatever, I don’t care. But it should be HIS debt until it is paid.
What ObamaCare does is shift it from "can't turn away critical cases" to will degrade the care for those who have been paying their own way to give the same extent of "care" to everyone. The distinction is large in scale and cannot help but punish those who pay even more severely.