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

To: Lane3 who wrote (3147)	12/10/2007 3:27:51 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 42652

I apologise if you perceived that I was using a strawman argument. It is not a way to further a dialog, and more often used by people who are losing the debate. I perceived that you carved my question in half, and you did not like it when I responded from the half you did not respond to. "Again, government bureaucrats tend to have better insurance policies than 'creators of wealth'." Perhaps, but so what? Unless you conflate health care with insurance. If a person is well enough off to pay for his own health care, then it doesn't really matter whether he uses that insurance or pays out of his own pocket. He still gets the same quality health care. When an outside force dictate what level of health care a person can have, it ceases to be a free society. Health insurance is one thing, but as government gains control over larger pieces of the medical industry, they come closer to being able to dictate that favored classes receive better care. This was the way it worked in the USSR, government high ups and their favored cronies received gold plated care while the rest suffered with poor medical care. It has worked very similarly in China. These are two shining stars of socialism. I believe that a person is entitled to receive whatever standard of care they can negotiate. If Billionaires receive better care than you and I, then so be it. I would rather see creators of wealth live longer lives than party apparatchniks. It would benefit all of society to have creators of wealth, on average, outlive destroyers of wealth. The only way to ensure equality of medical care is to deny it to everyone.