After reading all the posts, here is another question for you to ponder. Under socialized medicine where is the incentive to be innovative and cutting edge? One reason our health care is considered the best in the world is capitalism. If you are good at what you do, you get rewarded.
1. Under “free,” socialized health care, there is overusage by the population, then govt caps the budget. That causes shortages & long waits.
2. There is no innovation, and the “cheap” drugs are developed by costly R&D still done by [free market] health care countries.
Socialized medicine nations do no research, they take our costly breakthroughs, and sell them “cheaply” (read: without paying any of the heavy research costs, and pretending it’s ‘cheap’ to provide them.)
Free riders on capitalism & competition.
3. Notice that you got health care, but did not pay the extreme taxes involved domestically. Feel lucky.
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I just gave a talk about this very subject yesterday, at my college. I can cut & paste my notes, and place them on this link, later next week (they are on my office computer).