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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (2505)	10/30/2007 8:51:15 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

re: But health care is a massive expense, and one that often grows as a percentage of the economy as wealth and technology grows. Health care, like every other scarce good has to be rationed (at least if you consider rationing by price to be a form of rationing). If you give it away or make it very cheap than you have too much demand compared to supply. Instead of rationing by price you might ration by waiting lists, but whatever method you use there isn't an endless pile of health care services to "compassionately" distribute. There is a finite demand for health care. We may not come close to meeting it but it is still a solid number. If can go up or down, depending on things like the amount of preventive care and programs, but it is still a finite number... no reason we can't meet it, as other countries do, with universal care. You make it sound as if people don't get sick because they can't afford to get sick???? If they could afford it they would joyfully get cancer and all sorts of other maladies.