“I am saying medical care is already greatly controlled by government.
As such, the government is obliged to make sure everyone has access to it.”
That does not follow logically (non sequitur).
It just expresses a desire for government to make the problem disappear (magic). We can wish that the government could make gravity go away, as well as wishing that the cost of illness would disappear.
You are accepting greater government control, and seeking to grant government responsibility for an individual need. You say that government is obliged. Well, government would require great new authority to fulfill that huge responsibility.
It is a great surrender of independence.
It is not in our constitution. It is not the kind of government envisioned in our founding.
It would require a government with overwhelming power over the individual - life and death, when it comes to medical care.
In return for that great cost in liberty, we would get a less effective health care solution - government does not do a good job in providing goods and services in the real world - only in the persuasive speeches that slick politicians give to convince people to give them power.
More government is not going to fix the problem that government itself caused - exploding costs and bureaucratic restrictions bogging down doctors from providing care.
There is no problem with access - walk into a doctor’s office or hospital. The problem is paying for it, just like anything else that individuals need or want.
Get the government out of the business of regulating who can provide what medical care, to whom, and I would agree with you completely.
They will not, however. The government controls American healthcare in a very big way.
So they have an obligation to be sure it is available to all, and frankly they need to bring down the cost.
Too many people are getting rich off of healthcare.
It is not this way in other countries. I believe our system has been badly corrupted by those who should be fixing it.
Since they haven’t, Obamacare came along.
You may not agree with Obamacare, but we did nothing to fix the system before it arrived.
Our healtcare system is badly broken.
Fix it. But do not simply go back to what we had before. It was an incredibly expensive mess.
Fix it. Yes. But I mean fix it.
For everyone.