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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (123642)	7/13/2010 12:31:13 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Skeeter, The bottom line is that everyone can't have everything. If we convert to a single payer there are only two possibilities. 1. The government keeps pretending it can give everything to everyone and bankrupts the country even faster that it will now based on all the unfunded liabilities of medicare and medicaid. 2. The government gets fiscally responsible and starts intruding into the healthcare decisions of individuals, begins rationing health care, etc... Then instead of having the greatest healthcare in the world for those that can afford it and inadequate health care for everyone else, we will all have inadequate health care for everyone. In that scenario, the "average" may be better, but the top will be worse. I don't give a rats ass what they do, as long as I can operate independently from the government and make my own health care choices and pay for it any way I see fit (either directly or through private insurance). The private system has huge flaws, but anyone that thinks the government is going to do a better job is either incredibly naive or an idiot.