LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF THOSE WHO THREATEN THEM
14 June 2009
You Want These People To Control Your Health Care?
It appears Team Hopenchange just mortgaged our future, our grandchildren's future, and our great-grandchildren's future... on a guess. A "wrong guess".
And it wasn't "everyone," Joe. Just you and your buddies.
I live in Canada. The government doesn't control my health care. I go to my doctor. My doctor, not the government, decides what treatment I need, and he bills the government on a fee for service basis. I'd rather have that than insurance bureaucrats controlling my health care.
I respectfully disagree. If the government is the sole provider of health care, then they do ultimately control your health care. You have no option; no choice. If you have no other option then there is no competition, and the government can ration services - such heart bypasses - based not on patient need but on their budget needs or their determination of the "value" of providing that service. If that is my future, I would rather keep our messy system.
I can always change my insurance company, and therefore my insurance bureaucrats, if necessary; I can not change my government if I don't like the call of a government bureaucrat concerning my treatment.
I live in Canada. The government doesn't control my health care. I go to my doctor. My doctor, not the government, decides what treatment I need, and he bills the government on a fee for service basis. I'd rather have that than insurance bureaucrats controlling my health care.
ReplyDeleteKate:
ReplyDeleteI respectfully disagree. If the government is the sole provider of health care, then they do ultimately control your health care. You have no option; no choice. If you have no other option then there is no competition, and the government can ration services - such heart bypasses - based not on patient need but on their budget needs or their determination of the "value" of providing that service. If that is my future, I would rather keep our messy system.
I can always change my insurance company, and therefore my insurance bureaucrats, if necessary; I can not change my government if I don't like the call of a government bureaucrat concerning my treatment.