I think your missing the point. Lane3 wasn't in those series of posts, arguing against government funded health care insurance. She was arguing against governments imposing health care treatments on competent adults, whether they want them or not, except perhaps in cases where there is a clear danger to others from them not getting the treatment.
You could go to "universal coverage", and/or "single payer", or even something the Britain's NHS, without generally imposing medical care on people. So Lane3 responded with "WOW!" to " We can not let people be untreated from illness whether they want it or not"
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Turning to the point you do raise, even if it really isn't a response to what we being discussed -
I do think part of the objection is because people aren't used to it. There is nothing wrong with being skeptical about major involuntary changes.
But most of the objection to the new expansion of government (at least most of my objection) is that it additional. Its not like government is going to make a large reduction in spending and regulation in areas where we are used to government involvement so that the total burden of government doesn't go up when it imposes "universal health care".
And then there are objections specific to the health care industry. Some people don't mind big government, or even government expanding in to new areas but they don't want health care to be one of those areas. This isn't my specific objection, so I'm not sure I could answer any questions about it. Other people do mind big government in general but also have specific reasons to oppose specific government expansions in to health care (or technically health insurance, few are pushing an NHS for the US). I've been doing some of that here.
Then others are just against specific plans, but might not mind other forms of expansion of the government role. Again this isn't really my argument, so I can't speak for it. I might have specific problems with specific plans, but I don't think some better plan is going to come along, and I certainly am not pushing my own different universal health care plan. |
