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I think what you want to discuss is paying for healthcare.No, you're still ostriching.Ok, I understandNo, we do not have an infinite demand for healthcare. That's silly. Are you telling me you would go to the doctor just because it's fee? You would spend your evenings in an emergency room when you're not sick. I don't buy that.I guess that's an article of faith. I think each of us has a pretty much infinite demand for health care. But you're not answering the question. When three different patients can all be saved with a ten million dollar procedure, but there's only enough money in the budget for one - who decides?
You're so fixated on this over-utilization nonsense you're not listening. I'm not saying people will be going to the doctor just because it's "free". I'm saying that when your life is on the line, your demand for health care is, for all intents and purposes, infinite. But our capacity to pay for health care is not infinite. Someone has to make the call for whether it's worth a life's fortune to keep one person alive. If government is footing the bill, ultimately, government will be making this decision. I don't see how you can continue to deny that.
Because you may demand medical procedures does not mean you're going to get them. There has to be sound evidence that a treatment will improve your condition or extend your life. For a hospital to ignore this means they will not be paid and may even be sued.
"evidence that a treatment will improve your condition or extend your life" is irrelevant if there isn't enough money in the bank. You seem committed to the delusion that government can provide everyone with all the health care they "need". I've point out, several times that all of us will face a point where we need more health care than we can afford. Does that just not register with your brain?
My plan is relatively simple...
Uh huh. I don't want politicians deciding what kind of health care my family gets. And, though you're loath to admit it, that's what you're proposing.