Ask the UK and Canada how that "right to free healthcare is working out".
Many that can afford it, go somewhere else.
I think the more appropriate question to ask is "would you trade your system for the American system?". They all have complaints about their systems, but few would trade it for getting sent home with a bill for tens of thousands of dollars.
In all of those systems, you are free to cough up extra money out of your own pocket if you want something different. But the outcomes and quality of care for the average citizen is as good and often better than in the US, particularly in places like Germany that adopted universal coverage systems instead of trying to have one government agency directly manage healthcare for the entire nation. That's why the UK has so many problems. There's a big difference between direct government-run healthcare and the government basically acting as a very large insurance company, which is what Medicare already does.
Who gets to choose the insurance company that now has all the customers under such a system? How would they be chosen? Does the government just decide arbitrarily that Blue Cross (for example) is the winner, and all the other health insurance companies are just SOL?
I think the more appropriate question to ask is "would you trade your system for the American system?". They all have complaints about their systems, but few would trade it for getting sent home with a bill for tens of thousands of dollars.
In all of those systems, you are free to cough up extra money out of your own pocket if you want something different. But the outcomes and quality of care for the average citizen is as good and often better than in the US, particularly in places like Germany that adopted universal coverage systems instead of trying to have one government agency directly manage healthcare for the entire nation. That's why the UK has so many problems. There's a big difference between direct government-run healthcare and the government basically acting as a very large insurance company, which is what Medicare already does.
I'm remembering some parents from the UK that found a place to try to heal their kid, and came up with some money.
Yet they were NOT ALLOWED.
Seems the "free healthcare" didn't like competition.
Every person added to medicare divides the available funds per person into a smaller piece of pie. Opening it to everyone would be a financial disaster.
Few things ruffle my feathers faster than health care. The prices are absolutely disgusting and they are driven by many different factors, overt greed being a significant one. The health care system has people over a barrel, they know it and they've been taking full advantage for a long time. Government has done nothing but make things worse.
Healthcare is comprised of services and products, it is not a right. I do not have the right to the services or products of others. The old "if you can't beat em, join em" philosophy is a bull**** attempt at justifying socialism and slavery.
You have the right to take care of yourself. You have the right to eat properly, not smoke, not drink and to exercise. If your financial status impedes those rights you have the right to improve it. You have the right to seek out the products and services offered by others to improve upon your health. They should have the right to refuse to provide those things if you don' have the means to pay for it. Any other way is bleeding heart bull**** and just another attempt by the hypocritically liberal minded to force the hands of others so they can feel better about themselves.
You have the right to take care of yourself. You have the right to eat properly, not smoke, not drink and to exercise. If your financial status impedes those rights you have the right to improve it. You have the right to seek out the products and services offered by others to improve upon your health. They should have the right to refuse to provide those things if you don' have the means to pay for it. Any other way is bleeding heart bull**** and just another attempt by the hypocritically liberal minded to force the hands of others so they can feel better about themselves.
So we’re back to justifying socialism and theft by preying on emotions. Perfect.
What other argument is there?
BTW- I have 2 close friends whose children have had genetic "defects" that cause huge medical problems and bills. One family has a son with fact 8 deficiency hemophilia. The other has a daughter with multiple issues including developmental disabilities, deafness, requiring a cochlear implant, type 1 diabetes and heart issues. Thanks to heartless drug companies who give them expensive medicines, healthcare providers who donate their services as well as private charities and presently existing gvt. programs that apply to people in extreme situations rather than everyone, they are able to provide quality healthcare for their kids without bankrupting themselves.
Certainly, we need a gvt. takeover of everything to cure what ails us.
So we’re back to justifying socialism and theft by preying on emotions. Perfect.