housing and food are critical too... and yet we don’t give everyone a free mansion and lobster.
basic emergency care should be provided to anyone regardless of their ability to pay (and it is and has been)
American healthcare costs are higher because of government interference with the market along with the prevalence of insurance which destroys the free market forces which would naturally keep prices down.
I agree.
So we eliminate the government interference. No regulations. No laws saying what is required for providing coverage to anyone, for anything.
The government gets completely out of medicine.
No more government. If that is what you are saying, I am for that 100%. That is NOT what we have, we have the completely opposite.
The government is hugely involved in every single aspect of our medical care. Everything.
That is why it is so darned expensive.
But because it is, it needs to ensure that everyone has access to medical care.
However we do medical care, the government needs to require that everyone has the opportunity for real care.
Every single American.
No exceptions.
Oh, thank God there is at least ONE other person on the planet who understnads this!
One of my great pet peeves is the constant conflating of "health care" and "health INSURANCE". They are not the same thing, but many deliberately treat them as if they are.