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Originally Posted by hkbajwa  Well dude you can only get treated within a week or two in the US IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT. How many people do you think DON'T get the treatment they need because they can't afford it.These people in the end come to the hospital when they are close to kicking the bucket, which INCREASES the load on the public healthcare system, ULTIMATELY COSTING THE GOVERNMENT MORE.
Free healthcare is extremely effective in diagnosing and treating disease at early stages which ends up costing the system much less.
The concept of free healthcare does not become invalid merely because there are logistical challenges to overcome. I mean Social Security Numbers were a bitch and ahalf when first implemented. But everybody accepts that there MUST be a way to track individuals.
Likewise free universal helathcare is a HUGE challenge, but that doesn't mean it isn't a goal to strive for. | If you are sick and show up at an Emergency Room you are treated, right then and right there, granted you may have to wait up to 8 hours, but there is not week or two waiting. NICE TRY BUT IT IS A LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Universal Healthcare will cost the system more. If you have a sore throat or a cold, instead of going to the Grocery Store or Walmart and buying cold medicine, you go to the hospital. Instead of something that should cost $5 - $10 to treat, instead you pay for the doctor, the nurse, the lab, the x-ray, the electicity, the telephone, the heat/air, and finally the medicine. Now the bill is something like $2500. The costs will skyrocket.
Once upon a time we made it a requirement for people to have car insurance in order for them to drive, instead of costs going out of control they stabilized. If we can make car insurance mandatory, why not health insurance? If we did, then this whole debate would end.
dmk Conservatism, I repeat is not an ideology. It does not breed fanatics....But if you want men who seek, reasonably and prudently, to reconcile the best in wisdom of our ancestors with the change which is essential to a vigorous civil social existence, then you will do well to turn to conservative principles
-Russell Kirk- |