Thread: Medicine

Originally Posted by Bruno

But once you need it, you will not be able to get it because your illness already exists.
That would be like insuring your car after you crash it. Medical insurance is no different.

except that i choose to purchase insurance even though i usually don't need it. i have done this my entire adult life, but it has been a choice. i can opt out. state run medicine... you can't opt out.

Originally Posted by Bruno

so how exactly would you lose by switching to mine?
You'd come out ahead, just like everyone else.

I'd be giving up a measure of my personal freedom. I realize that security is more important to some people than liberty, but I'm not one of them. I want the freedom of a government that nannies me as little as possible. armies are one thing... that the gov't manages them is non-optimal, but I will agree it is a necessary evil. after all, a country is a country geographically... you need to defend the entire thing, hence a national military. there are many examples of successful private-sector (toll) roads where I live, and there are also private sector, pay as you go libraries. (bookstores) you list these examples as supportive, but I don't care for them either. additionally, (here at least) most roads and libraries are state, city or county managed, and not federally managed. this is a huge difference.

as an aside, I have anecdotal evidence that gov't managed healthcare in it's current form (medicare, medicaid) is vastly inferior to private healthcare purchases. that's the great thing about the private sector... if you are willing to pay more, you can usually get something better. (less wait time, nicer doctor, better medicines, etc.) I like being able to buy healthcare from an excellent doctor in a clean office than have to go to the slum clinics downtown where medicaid subscribers have to go.