Triton
King of the Sea
C'mon you know you want universal government run health care.
Your comparison of utility companies and private insurance companies is not valid at all.
The free market is not the reason for the rising cost of health care at all. People used to be able to afford to pay for their health care and did not need insurance to pay for what is now absurdly expensive simple doctors visit thanks to government overegulation placing greater burden and cost on medical practitioners and patients.
Why do you assume that institutions in NH would not accept payment from NY's public insurance? What would NH's government have to do with agreements between the private institutions of NH and the public health system of NY? Why do you assume NH would have poor health care and NY good health care? What happens when the government deems people to be not worth the cost of treatment? Is the government going to force obese people on diets as to not strain the system or limit their care? .
I can ask numerous hypothetical questions too.
One single minimum standard controlled by the government creates one single sub-standard system with too much power in the hands of the government. It restricts creativity and ingenuity in medicine. It prevents the best and brightest in medicine from achieving independence in medicine and adds massive bureaucracy with its insane red tape and increased taxpayer costs for a government that cannot even maintain the public infastructure. All while taking personal choice away from the individual.
So yes, its a terrible thing.
Your comparison of utility companies and private insurance companies is not valid at all.
The free market is not the reason for the rising cost of health care at all. People used to be able to afford to pay for their health care and did not need insurance to pay for what is now absurdly expensive simple doctors visit thanks to government overegulation placing greater burden and cost on medical practitioners and patients.
Why do you assume that institutions in NH would not accept payment from NY's public insurance? What would NH's government have to do with agreements between the private institutions of NH and the public health system of NY? Why do you assume NH would have poor health care and NY good health care? What happens when the government deems people to be not worth the cost of treatment? Is the government going to force obese people on diets as to not strain the system or limit their care? .
I can ask numerous hypothetical questions too.
One single minimum standard controlled by the government creates one single sub-standard system with too much power in the hands of the government. It restricts creativity and ingenuity in medicine. It prevents the best and brightest in medicine from achieving independence in medicine and adds massive bureaucracy with its insane red tape and increased taxpayer costs for a government that cannot even maintain the public infastructure. All while taking personal choice away from the individual.
So yes, its a terrible thing.