You were dishonest first because you said the right wants no changes. Patently false unless you define change exclusively in leftist terms: i.e., more state involvement. Make the tax exemption individual. Expand health savings accounts. Allow insurance sales across state lines. Or better yet, like I said, get the government out of it ALTOGETHER. Those are all changes.....they just aren’t changes of the compulsory statist variety.
You were also dishonest because you talked about conservatives being willing to let people die in front of hospitals. Either that was dishonest or you truly don’t understand the difference between valuing liberty and blind malevolence. I chose dishonest because I was giving you credit for having the intelligence to grasp the distinction.
Hank
I will accept your first criticism as possibly valid, although none of the changes you mention do a thing to address the root of the problem, which is providing medical care to those who are incapable or unwilling to provide themselves with it. All they do is provide alternative ways to pay for those who are capable of doing so.
Your second point is not valid. Either you are willing to provide care in emergency rooms to whoever needs it, whether they can pay or not, or you are willing to let people die in front of the hospital.
In the first case, which is what we have now, the shortfall in revenue to the hospital must be made up some way, either by charging paying customers more or by government (taxpayer) subsidy. Or the hospital will go out of business or will stop providing ER services.
If people are turned away from ER rooms because they can’t pay, then you will indeed have people dying on the street out front.
My main point is not whether allowing this is justifiable or not philosophically, it is that it would be utterly disastrous politically. Unless you are deluded enough to think such Randian beliefs are majority opinions. Personally, I would be quite surprised if 10% of the population would be willing to go along with repealing the requirement that all ERs provide emergency care regardless of whether the recipient can pay or not.