“Where did I say that?”
That’s why I asked the question.
So everyone on this thread simply wants to pay for their own healthcare without government or third-party payers involved? That would be refreshing, but highly unlikely.
The point is that people want what they want. If everybody gets everything, then nobody gets anything, which is the end result of Obamacare.
Medical care should be between patient and doctor, including payment. Then the system will have a way of righting itself, otherwise we all get what bureaucrats say we get for any arbitrary reason.
Sorry, I should have known that, as an engineer, you like things specified clearly in exact terms.
I totally agree, the government needs to keep its sticky fingers out of the health care business completely.
However, government intervention and control now seems to be a fact of life, and I don’t see that changing any time in the foreseeable future.
I should have stated this explicitly as an underlying premise.
As such, I made my original comment questioning whether the government has any business denying treatment for reasons of lifestyle, and more importantly, over health issues that are unrelated to the nature of the treatment in question.
I believe the government has no business making those decisions, regardless of how the payment actually happens.
My comment was directed to a poster who seemed to be OK with that sort of government involvement. Sadly, it looks like he’s going to get the death panels that he seems to want.