Look, everyone needs healthcare.
Every single person.
The government heavily regulates healthcare in America. There are TONS of regulations.
As long as the government is so involved in everything about healthcare, the government has an obligation to ensure every single person is covered.
I for one would like to get the government out of healthcare, but I doubt that will EVER happen.
So we need a system, which covers every single person.
Everyone.
Get a backbone.
you sound like a Romney Republican.
“So we need a system, which covers every single person.”
We used to have that until the government got involved.
Do we need to feed everyone and give them a home too? The government regulates all of these.
We all need health care, not health insurance. Ubiquitous health insurance (where a $5,009 MRI costs $20 in deductible payments, so might as well get three MRIs when you fell off a sifa or something minir) is the reason that health care is as expensive as it is. The best reform would be to get the government the heck out of the way and let doctors charge what things actually cost.
A universal template of access and tax/credit/deductibility, sure, Obamacare didn't do that, it screwed a lot of people. If Medi-caid-care have an equal free-market alternative that we offer and maybe pay for those that can't until they get a job? Perhaps. The libertarian in me wants it free-market and simple as possible, my heart which isn't stone sees people hurting. Their might be a place were we can get a lot more done aka purchase and coverage for a heck of lot less money.
You are correct but brace yourself.
The problem is that we have a medical monopoly at work. Not allowed to price shop.
ah....no.
“Look, everyone needs healthcare... (therefore) the government has an obligation to ensure every single person is covered.”
Look, everyone needs food, and housing, and clothing, and education, and entertainment, and other things. By the same logic, the government must provide everything to everyone.
Don’t fall for it - it is a rhetorical (emotional) argument, not a logical one.
If Trump wants to provide a basic level of care for every citizen, the trick will be to do it without: making health care a government monopoly; forcing private insurance to cross-subsidize the needy; ripping off doctors; rationing treatments in the name of equality; or funding sex changes, abortions, Viagara, etc. The funding of basic care should be out in the open and funded by broad-taxes.
If Trump wants to provide a basic level of care for every citizen, the trick will be to do it without: making health care a government monopoly; forcing private insurance to cross-subsidize the needy; ripping off doctors; rationing treatments in the name of equality; or funding sex changes, abortions, Viagara, etc. The funding of basic care should be out in the open and funded by broad-taxes.
In a word....NO.
In a word....NO.
So the government regulates healthcare therefore it needs to provide healthcare to everyone?
The government regulates how much water is in my toilet bowl and what kind of light bulbs I can buy. Does this mean they need to provide a toilet and light bulbs to everyone?