BTW, Medicare may be government run, and poorly so, but you (fortunately) will not be locked up for refusing to enroll in it - at least at this time. Plus, even Medicare enrollees have a right to contract privately for medical services rendered if they and their "provider" agree to it and their "provider" is not a "participant" in the program.
“I don’t accept the inevitability of nationalized medicine, and if you do, it would be difficult to call you a “conservative.””
Oh really? Well, if I can’t be a conservative, at least I can still be a republican.
That’s an asinine statement, but you’re entitled to it.
Let’s cut to the chase as to why you are so clueless.....Do you, or do you not pay for your own insurance?
This, of course is a trick question, because if you DID pay for your own insurance you wouldn’t be so self-deluded as to think that socialized medicine is not inevitable, given the cost, the cost growth of actually paying for it yourself. I’m not saying it’s a good thing that we’ll have socialized medicine, I’m just saying it is inevitable because of the expense of healthcare and the inability of average folks to afford insurance premiums.
So, who’s conservative now?