Americans. How can you stand not having proper public health?, page 3

Originally posted by TheOtaku
The government really has no obligation to, even in extreme cases. If they can do it without waiting lists and taxes going higher go for it. But otherwise I like having the million dollar coverage I have right now.

It doesn't really take too much imagination to justify the gov't intervening in the system and taking it over. First and foremost, it is throwing alot of money into the system now...from many different directions. Would the system hold it's own if the gov't decided to pull this money from it? I'm not so sure it could....definately wouldn't be able to pay those ceos and managers at blue cross blue shield those outrageous salaries anymore I bet!! The doctors, hospitals staff, and even those coe's decided to sell their souls for those nice salaries!!! So the fees keep going up, as everyone, including the lawyers cash in! and this makes more and more people in need of assistance from the gov't..and all the others dependent on the insurance companies..and it is now beginning to put too much strain on the gov't, or should I say more of a strain that it wants to deal with. Considering the amount of dependency the industry now has on the government, well, it is only natural for it to lead to more and more control of the system.

And, then there is the matter of the war on terror, the threat of biological and chemical weapons and the matter of just how long would we want some manufactured germ to circulate through our society before we luck out and it happens to hit upon someone who is insured and more eager to go to the doctor.....tell ya what...if it hits me, they won't know aboiut it until I am dead and then only if they take the time to look for a cause of death.
So, there is two valid reasons, in my opinion, for socialized medicine...

In plain simple words, our freedom and equality came with alot of responsibility.. maybe we just have ignored that responsibility too long....thrown too much into the realm of goverment.
People have the responsibility of providing for themselves.....there is no freedom unless they do.
Employers have the responsibility to deal fairly with their employees and provide them with the means to meet their needs...
And, the merchants and those who provide the necessities of life also have the responsibility to keep them affordable for the vaste majority of the masses.
And, they all have the responsibility to obey the laws of the country. The fraud in this system is outrageous!!!
And, well, I tend to believe that the gov't needs to go one way or the other on this one...either socialize the system and get it under control and stabilized enough to be able to hold it's own. Or it needs to just pull ALL taxpeyers money out of the system and let it adjust to not having it. In the meantime, I will just be outside harvesting the mullin, the st. john's wort, ect... and use what I can afford! ummm....wonder how effective echinaciea would be on smallpox....