Why does the United States consider healthcare an open market commodity when all other developed countries guarantee their citizens some basic level of healthcare?
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It’s capitalism in it’s purest form. And the US doesn’t deny healthcare to anyone – it’s just that the US doesn’t have any kind of centralized PREVENTATIVE care.
It doesn’t matter who you are – you can walk into a hospital and they will treat you no matter what. But, the problem is that it’s awful to wait until you have the heart attack to get treatment. With preventative insurance, the person might have been able to prevent it.
There are definitely benefits to free market healthcare as well. My employer provides my benefits, which is the case for most in the US. Anyhow, I can call the doctor and tell them I’m on my way and they will see me within a few hours. There’s no waiting lists for things like hip replacements, there’s no restrictions on the kinds of medicines that you can take, and if you have insurance they’ll treat a 90 year old just as much of a priority as a 10 year old…
Just thoughts… there’s a lot to be said for and against free market healthcare.
Partially related are the drug companies. If they can’t make the big bucks on new drugs anymore, they’ll just stop making them… Free market is why all the new drugs are invented in the US…
Posted on March 25th, 2010 at 11:41 am
I think the basic answer is that the USA has been built as a capitalist society, and therefore medicine has been left to the free market. Also, the move to some form of government healthcare has been fought on various levels…from the providers themselves, from people concerned about the cost, and from people worried about the quality of the health care they would receive if it was run as a government program.
Posted on March 25th, 2010 at 11:55 am
It is my opinion that having Government involved in Health care allow for the possibility that your personal liberties are at stake.
Let’s suppose a government on an unknown planet where it has a health plan that covers all people and as a result must limit expenses due to rising costs.
You have been advised that you are endangering your future health because it has been found that you are thirty pounds over weight.
The “panel” that governs your health care has contacted your purchasing card and from this Tuesday forward it will be against the rule of law for you to have sugar products in your home.
Your purchase card will report any attempt to buy sugar products, soft drinks, white refined flour products, an products with a carb count of more than 15 carbs per serving.
If you do not fall into compliance within six months, you will be sent ot a work camp where your will be forced to lose weight.
Face it, your weight and your health are your business and your responsibility. The less government interference in your life the happier you will be.
somebody wise said; if you think health care is expensive now…wait until it’s free.
Stay healthy and free, take care of yourself. You will do the best job.
Posted on March 25th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
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