I can think of several answers off the top of my head:
The Constitution of the United States established a national government of limited and enumerated powers. National healthcare is not one of those powers.
Putting the national government in charge of healthcare will create massive bureaucracies, requiring enormous tax burdens.
Government bureaucracies are less efficient at delivering goods and services than private enterprises. Consequently, a government health care system will end up costing more while delivery poorer service.
Nationalized healthcare will remove incentives for innovation in medicine.
A government health care system will provide statists endless excuses for meddling in the lifestyle choices of citizens.
In general, socialism is inefficient because it distorts the market, substituting political calculation for economic ones. It is also incompatible with personal freedom.
Well first thanks for your answer!
Well i do agree that some kind of “forced national health care” is against the so called “american dream”. I do agree that this really oposses everything the constitution stands for. But then again it´s really not all bad (has it flaws of course) . I mean come one it´s portrayed in the US like this would be the end of the world. It´s not! “We” have this here for example. (and “we” are not a bunch of commies ;-) but “forced” national helath care does not nessersary mean that there is no way to avoid it (I do agree the only way to avoid health care at all here would be to become a “homeless” but i guess this is not an option which people here on FR want to have :-)
But then again does this mean that your are forced to have it? NO! I live in “europe” and i have a private insurance (and i´m really happy with it). I would never “use” the so called socialized medizine. (Why should i?) No one forces me.
I´m forced to have an insurance company “that´s true (and open for discussion) But at the and i love “special” treatment and private clinics. And really NO ONE forces me to give this up. So for example i´m private insured and i´m living in a country with so called socialized health care.
(And i have never seen anything other than a “private “ hospital”
where i can chose my doctor and everything else).
So who says that “socilazized health care” means that everyone is forced to use it or has to pay for it?
Because this is not true!
greetings,