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Quote by: leftcider There are frequent debates on this site and elsewhere over whether it would be wise for the US to change to a fully nationalized system of healthcare. The US already publically spends more per capita on public healthcare than most countries with a universal system, while at the same time requiring huge private expenditures. What we should be debating is how costs can be systemically lowered.
The real debate that we should be having is how we can lower our healthcare costs, rather than if we should bear them privately or publicly, because we are already bearing the costs greatly in both sectors.. |
By steering this debate around the critical issue of "public funding" you do several things.
1) You void the constitution, and the constitutional process by assuming all Americans are "OK" with the idea of socialized medicine.
2) You ask for the government to become further entrenched into an industry they are far too incompotent to run. (as an example I cite any other government run program you can think of)
3) You make the concept of law, and order (or constitutionality) seem all the more antiquated, because of your cavalier attitude about usurping the power of We the People.