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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (11797)11/24/2009 5:40:58 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
I don't see anything above or anywhere else from you that shows how you can be a fiscal conservative and oppose rationing.

So you admire people like Stalin, Hitler, Lenin because they were fiscal conservatives willing to impose rationing after they destroyed efficient delivery mechanisms?

Medicare and Medicaid aren't a right IMO but they are most definitely the law. For public programs, there is no other insurer to step in and pick up the pieces as you describe. If they go bankrupt, we go bankrupt. Legitimate fiscal conservatives would not allow that to happen. Instead they would ration to get costs under control.

Where have I proposed to force Medicare and Medicare into bankruptcy?

when Medicare doesn't pay, either my secondary insurance pays or I do

Good. Now explain why this means all Americans should be forced into a rationed system that would most likely eliminate the option for self payment. (If not at first then soon after.)

While you are at it you can explain when belief in personal responsibility ceased to be mainstream and in your opinion became fringe.

So only rationing is left.

Only if you assume that healthcare is a right and that the government is obligated to pay for it.

I believe in personal responsibility. Rationing only affects people who won't accept personal responsibility until it is outlawed.
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