Government healthcare is always a bad idea. Take Canada for example. So many Canadian doctors have left the workforce that wait-times for medicine are egregious. Long waits for colonoscopies have resulted in a 25% higher colon cancer rate in Canada. The Canadian government is funneling money into the system that's failing and chasing away doctors. The government can not operate anything correctly, let alone control an entire industry. Everything about it is a bad idea. In America, this is an extremely expensive project that we're trying to launch in the middle of our worst financial debt ever. On October 17th we're projected to literally run out of money and there's an entire half of the nation trying to argue that the best course of action is to spend even more money. It's ridiculous.
$trinick, you dah man. ;)
The original American government served to protect us, our land, and to keep order. Now it's "oh, we should 'help' 50% of all people in America by giving them money while
simultaneously trying to control many major industries that should be handled by the people, the largest here being healthcare (and public schooling, but that's a different matter).
Back when there was no national healthcare, we got along just fine, and doctors had much more reasonable prices, too. Couldn't afford one? 99.99% of the time, a charitable organization (commonly churches) would pay the bill for you. But now, doctors charge ridiculous amounts of money, the actual system (getting the patient taking care of
properly) often fails, and people get tons of money thrown at them for healthcare by the government, and then
still go into debt because of the ridiculous prices. Then, the government is in more debt than it was before, the patients are in debt because of reliance and a false sense of security in many government programs, and the doctors have lods emone going into their pockets. Realistically, it'd be difficult to remove healthcare from government control, and truthfully, many people would hate it. Those people, however, are the ones who don't take the time to look at what our now sad excuse of a government is doing to our economy.
