‘everyone could get the healthcare they need’
Has it occurred to any grasping-hands type that one reason medical devices, equipment, treatments, etc. are expensive is because they are rare? And has it occurred to any grasping-hands type that they exist at all because someone took a risk seeking a reward in the form of a profit?
X-ray machines, surgical trays, diabetic supplies, etc. did not drop out of the sky fully formed in infinite numbers.
Moreover, ‘need’ is a fairly shaky basis and a rather nebulous term. Does someone need a nose job or liposuction? If a bum declares a need for gamma-knife surgery is he moved to the front of the line ahead of the person able to pay for it or even whose philanthropy created the hospital wing and paid for the gamma-knife itself?
Need is not want and need is not justification for demanding and taking.
Who decides what’s necessary medical care and what isnt?
Under Bernie’s plan - that decision won’t be made by you and your doctor.
It will be made by politicians and bureaucrats.
Now get this - the same people who say the government has no business telling a woman what to do with her own body, turn out to be the same people who insist the government has the right to decide how to manage your health care.
Just don’t accuse them of hypocrisy.