"Support for Healthcare Plan Falls to All Time Low"

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

This much I know, and this much I think should be offered to everyone

I think we can agree on that point. In America, regardless of whether or not you are insured, you receive healthcare. It's the law. You can't be turned away (I know here are horrible exceptions, but they remain in every country, regardless of healthcare systems) and every year our healthcare system loses millions if not billions of dollars treating the uninsured, and in the end everyone else ends up paying for it with increased premiums to insurance companies, and part of this is what makes insurance so expensive for individuals.

We all agree that there needs to be a solution that gets everyone covered, from both a health and cost perspective. I simply differ on the idea that universal government control is the best solution, and have presented my best arguments to support that idea. Government backstop plans like MediCare (wow, did I really spell it MedicAir before, like it's an airline?) are useful and necessary, but I just don't think they should be the norm as they are inefficient, provide a lower standard of care by their nature and are extraordinarily poor payers.