ShaklesOfBigGov
Restore the Republic
. The governments shouldn't be providing the actual healthcare system, but only the insurance to their citizens. The healthcare industry needs to be run by the free markets. Everyone could be granted a healthcare insurance card that insures a basic coverage to all citizens. It could cover basic life sustaining healthcare needs and check ups, and if people want to purchase plans beyond the basic, then go for it. Everyone deserves to walk in the front door of a health provider by appointment, and not have to go to the backdoor of an ER in an emergency when it becomes to late for them. I would proudly join the nation in a plan that would deduct $5.00 dollars a week from my income, if it put a healthcare card into everyone's pocket because it would be cheap enough to all citizens at that rate to be covered. Like I say, if people want extra coverage, then why not, and it would be offered by the free markets at an affordable rate also, because they wouldn't have a monopoly in their areas any longer.. Follow me here... We're talking about having new idea's or new ways that it could or should work. It is why everyone is trying to come up with a better system of doing things, and not sticking with the way things were. Do you want a system that goes all the way back to the 1800's or would you rather someone trail Blaze a new one that could benefit all ?. You say that as if it is free ? It's not or would not be free. Everyone would pay into the basic plan. It's just that in the plan offered, the government would have no profit incentive involved... It would give everyone the same plan, and the same options in the basic plan to cover all Americans....It's the role and responsibility of government to provide for the common defense. Nowhere in the Constitution is it written that it's the responsibility of the Federal government to provide for health care. Do we find auto insurance classified as an "entitlement" that someone ELSE has the responsibility to pay for your coverage? Yes or no? If not, then health care has been wrongfully classified as such. In fact ... name just one particular coverage, outside of this healthcare mandate, that is the sole legal responsibility of another to pay and supply FOR you in order that you may have the self assurance that you require.
If anyone wants more than that, then they would purchase extra for themselves in the free market place.
HUH?
There is NO free market place in health care. It has been under government control since the mid 1800's.
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The problem is that health care costs have not gone down in Great Britain's NHS, nor has Canada's quality of health care improved with expected wait times. There hasn't been this drastic improvement by going to a national government system. The only supportive argument supporters of the system eventually defaults to is, "well now everyone has health care".
The problem is that treatment and care has always been regulated and run through a government system. You are in need of certain medications? You need approval for a specific treatment? The doctor and healthcare nurses have to submit specific forms, go through hoops of using predetermined wording, while the patient is required to go through specific "alternate" venues before attaining approval of the one procedure they seek. This is all the result of a government regulated and controlled system. Obamacare, and other MORE government seeking alternatives, only tightens the noose in who is controlling what procedures, prescriptions, and the type of treatment avenue you are allotted to take. The primary responsibility of a government run system is in seeking to control the overall COSTS, while dictating the treatment plan of a patient. A plan where the one seeking medical attention, must first go through a predetermined course of action to satisfy a required series of "check-off" lists in order to be qualified for further treatment. All this of course, takes precedence over the extensive medical training a doctor has obtained in what a patient really needs to sustain a better quality recovery. In the end we find the concerns that are being raised is one that government seeks to solve, costs.... when what people should really be asking for is better quality of care.