With Michael Moore’s “documentary” Sicko (actually propaganda film) soon to be released and the 2008 election campaigning already underway I am sure the Health Care debate will heat up. For those that are in support of turning over our Heath Care to the government I have a few questions that I would like answered before I will support this idea.
- What is it that the government does so well that you think they can handle taking control of our health care system? Is it the great job the our government hs done with Social Security? Maybe it is our wonderful education system that graduates illiterate children. Maybe it is the USPS and their efficient ability to deliver the mail at a fair price? Maybe it is the Government health care that we already have for a Veterans. Maybe it is the quick and efficient lines at your local DMV that gives you the confidence that the government can handle it. Please let me know if it is one of the above or if you have other examples.
- How can we implement Socialized Medicine and not turn our health care into the same failure that Canada, France or the U.K. has? What makes our government so superior that you feel confident despite all the world failures that we can pull it off?
- How is it that removing the insurance companies and adding a government bureaucrat will be an improvement?
- How much will the free health care cost us as taxpayers?
- Will all hospitals be like county hospitals now with long waits and chaos?
- How will the loss of competition effect our health care system?
Also, before we do something so drastic as to change to socialized medicine why do we not try to fix some of our current problems that we have now? For example, if we did not have to pay for the 12 million illegal immigrants health care now how much better would our system be? What does it cost us now to support illegals. I read that over half of all babies born at Ben Taub hospital in Houston are Anchor Babies. These are children born in America with illegal aliens as parents that will typically never pay for their medical bills. We will not go into how much it costs to educate said baby.
So until I get some answers that can convince me that this is a good idea it will take a lot more than Moore’s propaganda to change my mind.
I ask the same questions, although, I know the answers. The government cannot run health care and make it efficient, cheaper or safer than what we have in place now. There will be so many layers of bureaucracy, no one having a straight answer for anyone or anything. The run around will be exhaustive. If you were not gravely ill when you went for help, you will be when they are finished with you.
I was engaged to a wealthy gentleman from Canada and he came to the United States for all his medical. He explained that you go on a waiting list and you can be bumped downward if you are a senior. They had the attitude that the elders had lived most their lives, so they would accept younger people first, and if they could get to the elders before they passed away, then they would get treatment. It took his father over 2 years to receive heart surgery.
I don’t think any of us want to be treated like that or have our parents treated like they are worthless. It was against the law to seek private care and pay for yourself.
It’s is all crumbling before their eyes. We should not be so arrogant as to think we can do it any better. Socialism doesn’t work, never has, never will.
Take heed America. They are coming after us. They are getting bolder and bolder. We need to stop them in their tracks right now!
By: madmouser on June 22, 2007
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