06-16-2009, 05:42 PM
professorpinasheep Wrote:The issue I take with government run healthcare is who gets to make the decisions. You want to put an entity that can't pay its bills, mortgages the future, specializes in short-term fixes, and is known for dragging its feet at nearly every opportunity, in charge of deciding what to do when it comes to your health? Are treatment options going to be about what what course you want and/or your doctor suggest, or will it rely simply on survival and success ratios? I'd like to hear more about it.
Well, so far people have responded to the other part about whether or not the private sector will be made obsolete by a move like this. I'm still not sure it's going to ADD jobs, but perhaps no drastic cuts will take place. There's still the matter of this paragraph, which no one who supports government healthcare has addressed. Assuming the government is in control of payments and such, is it too much to guess that they then have a major say in what treatment a person is eligible for? I'm not so sure I want that much government intrusion. And how does the government propose to pay the bill? We're 12+ trillion dollars in debt already, and we're still gunna be writing checks? How's that work?
Where would we be without the agitators of the world attaching the electrodes of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?