We can create our own “underground network” of health CARE in communities with bartering and cash and trade - like the old days. Then hope and pray we don’t need the expensive stuff.
I don’t know what the health CARE answer is - but I do know what the gov’t is pushing is not health CARE, it is health INSURANCE and there is a very big difference. The poor are already covered by Medicaid and Medicare (those who actually jump through the hoops to get it). And, just because you have the INSURANCE does not necessarily mean you get good health CARE.
And that’s something else to consider: how many times (think Katrina) when the gov’t gave away services, the recipients whined about it not being good enough or enough period. The people who think that free health INSURANCE is going to solve their problems are going to be very dissappointed when they figure out that it isn’t going to cover every little thing and that they will have a new set of responsibilities along with it.
I fear that’s when the proverbial sh*t will hit the fan.
The reason such an underground network hasn’t already developed is that the minute somebody isn’t fully satisfied with the results they got, they hire a lawyer to file a malpractice suit, and the people who provided the care are destroyed by the legal system for practicing medicine without a license or for violating any of a zillion other regulatory requirements that have been forced on all medical care in this country.