Unfortunately, Marx's [I also understand it's in the bible] from each according to his ability to each according to their needs is never more wished for (and evident) than taxpayer funded healthcare that most of the people in the U.S. seem to clamor for. To the point where it's sickening.
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Government health care will eventually control avery aspect of the peoples lives. From the food you eat to the clothes you wear, to the car you drive. If you do anything that is unhealthy, they will deny health care.
One factor wrecking Canada's health care system is precisely that public and private care operate on different sources - and n'er the twain shall meet. AFAIK: Yes, you can opt for private care - but if you do, once, at all, you lose all access to public (i.e.: taxpayer funded) care.
“Now nobody is proposing that Americans be forced to get their insurance from the government.”
Funny he should say this. Is the government planning to nationalize insurance as well as health care?
But a LOT of leftists *are* proposing that Americans be forced get their health care from the government. So why did he say “insurance”?
If the answer is no, then the public plan would need to stand on its own financially and, in essence, would be a private nonprofit plan. But then what's the point? If advocates of a public plan want to start a nonprofit company offering health insurance on better terms than existing insurance companies, nothing is stopping them from doing so right now. There is free entry into the market for health insurance. If a public plan without taxpayer support would succeed, so would a nonprofit insurance company. The fundamental viability of the enterprise does not depend on whether the employees are called "nonprofit administrators" or "civil servants."The bottom line: If the goal is honest competition in the provision of health insurance, the public option cannot do much good but can potentially do much harm.
Also, we all know the regulatory and union environments for the private sector enterprises in both cases is going to be much harsher than what the government enterprise faces.
What the Hell, if we have to buy our cars from the government, we might as well nationalize the hospitals and doctors as well.
Any Freeper health care workers, you can bet on it, once health insurance is nationalized, they are going to go after your paychecks next. Compensation schedules will be slashed and the menu of approved therapies drastically restricted.