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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (11764)	11/24/2009 4:04:42 PM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 42652

This describes me. No way. You are eschewing rationing in favor of advocating funding all claims. To do so you'd either have to raise taxes or acceded to an unbalanced budget. In order for you to justify your insulting claim you have to assume that socialized medicine is a social good exempt from being analyzed under fiscal conservative values. I need not do any such thing. I need only recognize that if we don't ration we will blow the budget. It's simple math, not a value judgment on socialized medicine. I don't see how you could possibly think you are exercising fiscal restraint by paying claims indiscriminately. For the time being socialized medicine is not a fact. Half of us have our medical bills paid for my the government. That is a fact. Whether or not the other half of us are shoved into that situation or not, one half is there now. Pretending it doesn't exist will not make it go away. We can't abolish Medicare and Medicaid. So rationing it in some way is the only choice for fiscal conservatives. You can't be both a fiscal conservative and a denier of "death panels."

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