Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 13:52.
Nationalized healthcare would be unwieldy. Of course privatized healthcare may be too.
The problem isn't the fact that you can't afford insurance, or that insurers can't afford to insure you. The problem is the cost of health care. It is artificially high, because we have a system that relies on insurers. Cut out the insurers, and the cost of health care will adjust itself to match what individuals can actually afford.
The downside to this is that pharmaceutical companies won't have the unrealistically huge profits to invest in research. The problem with nationalized healthcare is that we'll essentially be handing over those inflated costs to the pharma companies at the tax payers expense.
Nationalized health care, and other services probably have a place in the economy, but it is not the job of our political leadership to create or maintain those institutions. Their job is simply to define the law and national policy.
Nationalized healthcare
Nationalized healthcare would be unwieldy. Of course privatized healthcare may be too.
The problem isn't the fact that you can't afford insurance, or that insurers can't afford to insure you. The problem is the cost of health care. It is artificially high, because we have a system that relies on insurers. Cut out the insurers, and the cost of health care will adjust itself to match what individuals can actually afford.
The downside to this is that pharmaceutical companies won't have the unrealistically huge profits to invest in research. The problem with nationalized healthcare is that we'll essentially be handing over those inflated costs to the pharma companies at the tax payers expense.
Nationalized health care, and other services probably have a place in the economy, but it is not the job of our political leadership to create or maintain those institutions. Their job is simply to define the law and national policy.