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Health care reform = socialized medicine
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December 12th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Hi Peter
Im a huge fan of yours. I am Canadian, and LOVE my health care up here. The health insurance market in the USA does ration health care right now. If people were to pay the amount equal to the deductible each year to a single payer health care plan, the gov’t would have more than enough money to fund their plan. You’re way off base as a member of an incredibly functioning, reasonable society. Are you in favour of medicare?
December 12th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
I do not know what I think about this bill yet. What I do know is that the country is going into debt, insurance is becoming worthless, people can’t afford medical care, etc…I see these problems, but I fail to see any straightforward solution. This all basically comes down to the idea of whether or not health care is a priviledge or a right. If it’s a priviledge, the poor are out of luck(sucks to be me). If it is a right, then so is food. Either way, we are all in quite a pickle.
December 12th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
It’s crazy. The US can’t afford a socialized style of medicine. There will be a huge amount of waste and over-utilization of medical care. There will be excesses. Don’t blame the doctors. Blame the insurance companies and the lawyers who put pressure on doctors to over-service. I think the US needs to decide whether to go 100% socialist like Cuba or 100% capitalist. Part-socialism is slavery. Taxpayers are treated as slaves for the chronic welfare-dependants.
December 12th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
…All of this information is readily available to anyone with enough intellectual integrity to search it out.
Also, the government did not involve itself directly in medicine until the 20th century. This talk of G.W. is pure stupidity.
December 12th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Before government, began to subsidize medical care, most people in this country could afford to pay out of pocket.
Those that could not, or came down with a serious (expensive) illness, had the help of mutual aid societies, charities, and yes some people even had private insurance.
Was it a perfect system? Of course not, there is no “Perfect System”. It was however vastly superior, cost-wise to what we have now, and what is being proposed.
cont…
December 12th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
“actual research”?
You said absolutely nothing of meaning, “the United States, Pre-government involvement”? What the phuk are you talking about?
Back before G. Washington?
I asked if anyone could name a successful free market health care system anywhere in the world, and you couldn’t.
Thats because it doesn’t exist, it never existed, Why don’t you do some research?
December 12th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
How about the United States, pre-government involvement.
How about over 90% of all the innovations in modern medicine in the last 233 years coming from the United States.
How about laser eye surgery, here in the United States where the govt is still not involved.
How about you do some actual research.
December 12th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
the only thing GOV needs to control are INSANE prices Dr’s charge
INSANE prices drug companies charge
INSANE prices hospitals charge
INSANE prices nurses charge
INSANE prices specialists charge
best take your vitamins and excersize…stay healthy
God help you if you get sick/are born with some congenital defect
Dr’s Lawyers Dentists Judges..
THE NEW AMORAL SWINE
December 12th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
They don`t have a brain? What was that word you used? Stupider? You mean more stupid? Where would this man be if our taxes didn`t pay for his health insurance, while our taxes don`t pay for our own? Our taxes pay for the healthcare of prisoners, but our taxes don`t pay for our healthcare. What do we tax payers get from our taxes? The right to buy from rich insurance companies who rip us off while our taxes pay for the healthcare of others, including this man`s? Why would he want reform???
December 13th, 2009 at 12:30 am
It’s funny how the Senate debate isn’t getting any MSM news coverage.
December 13th, 2009 at 12:30 am
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December 13th, 2009 at 1:25 am
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December 13th, 2009 at 2:14 am
Peter Schiff Rules!!!!
December 13th, 2009 at 2:27 am
Is that why many canadians come to the U.S. for all their medical needs? Is that why my family in montreal told me that free healthcare was the worst? but what do they know right? They only live there….
December 13th, 2009 at 2:59 am
There isn’t one.
People depend too much on the government and are basically scared.
December 13th, 2009 at 3:46 am
Except for China, which is one of the world’s closest to an actual free market in health care…no. Ours is a socialist world with bankrupt banks, and governments all in the red…for reasons exactly like this. That’s my point entirely.
December 13th, 2009 at 4:28 am
You said we don’t have a “free market” health care system in America,
Can you name any free market health care system anywhere in the world?
December 13th, 2009 at 4:31 am
you are just giving a typical anti-market response…. this is not about health care…. many on the left would say “health care is different” by “different I would understand that to mean that it differs from your basic disbelief in markets…. of course we see that isn’t true…. what they really mean is that healthcare is the SAME
December 13th, 2009 at 5:17 am
oh, please….
December 13th, 2009 at 5:19 am
…except that a 2007 study by Rutgers University found that “Despite exhaustive research, little compelling evidence exists that state health insurance mandates do, in fact, have a significant impact on” the cost of health insurance.
In other words, letting Insurers circumvent state minimum-coverage mandates (what Republicans call “selling across state lines”) would just increase market share for the biggest insurers without lowering costs.
December 13th, 2009 at 5:35 am
No, you clown, became FOR profit this year. Next time you use ‘here’ as a source (and I’m guessing ‘here’ means Wikipedia) read the damn article.
December 13th, 2009 at 6:31 am
The one they have in Somalia
December 13th, 2009 at 6:38 am
Says here Medibank Private.. government owned private insurer.. became non-profit this year. BTW the American people didn’t bend over backward for them, it was the government who did so and forced them on us. Get your history straight.
December 13th, 2009 at 6:48 am
The very FACT that we have laws against illegal drugs (ie regulation) destroys the very notion of your argument that the the black market for illegal drugs is a free market. They’re running things because the government of Mexico is one of the most corrupt in the world. The prohibition of drugs is what makes it lucrative for criminal organizations. In fact the founder of the Mexican Gulf Cartel got his start bootlegging alcohol to the US during the prohibition days.
December 13th, 2009 at 7:46 am
barriers to entry, not entries