Re: You Choose '08 Spotlight: Ron Paul on Healthcare

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SergioMomarsh ::: Favorites Capitalism in health care leads to the raping of the sick. 07-08-05 00:20:45 _____________________________________________________
IdealistDan ::: Favorites Completely unfounded. In socialist medicine systems (like canada) the free market steps up and fills the gaps that are made.. just look at the ever growing black market medical system emerging in canada. not to mention the horrible wait times and the reliance on older cheaper forms of care... medicine that is standard here in the US can take many years to appear in canadian hospitals... if ever. Governments do all the raping. 07-08-05 12:23:24 _____________________________________________________
SergioMomarsh ::: Favorites But at least in a social health care system, where everyone is covered by virtue of taxes they pay, no one person gets robbed any more than the other, and if the system breaks the people have a right to petition for change en mass. 07-08-05 12:59:18 _____________________________________________________
IdealistDan ::: Favorites yeah.. everyone gets equally screwed. quality of care plummets and 100% of people who need care suffer instead of 20%... I don't see that as a step forward. If there were no such thing as scarcity, universal healthcare is a great idea.. but in light of the fact that there are unlimited needs and limited resources to provide for those needs, it is impossible and even trying is like sticking your head in the sand while simultaneously thumbing your nose at the economic realities of medicine. 07-08-05 13:50:40 _____________________________________________________
PDFlogic ::: Favorites I'm canadian. I agree with kaya051285 that there is a lot of people with long waiting times for serious health problems. Many rich people will go to the US for serious problems. But, if you are poor and you have an emergency health problem then it can be a good thing. 07-08-04 17:02:27 _____________________________________________________
DavidThePatriot ::: Favorites I still think that the market can provide an alternative for the poor. perhaps with not for profit insurance companies competing with the "for profit" industry 07-08-04 17:18:51 _____________________________________________________
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letmapeoplego ::: Favorites Yes, I have spent a great deal of time in countries with socialized medicine. I have decided it is great if you break and arm but you are screwed if you have a heart attack. You will see lots of people walking around on crutches for sprains and lots of people on waiting lists for serious stuff. 07-08-04 09:35:00 _____________________________________________________
kaya051285 ::: Favorites I live in England. We have universal social medical care. Everyone thinks its great, even most the doctors. But they seldom understand or see how inefficient our system is and they do not equate this inefficient socialist system to money out of their pockets My father is a doctor, a general practitioner. He says 85-90% of the people he sees have such minor problems like a head ache which would go away in a day or two He gets paid a very good sum, by the taxpayer, but 90% of that is wasted 07-08-03 21:39:13 _____________________________________________________
kaya051285 ::: Favorites Pure capitalism is the only real way to bring wealth and freedom to everyone. Even in arguably the strongest capitalist country, America, there are barriers to true capitalism and you only have a semi capitalist system that doesn't work. Take healthcare over there, there are many things a nurse can do that only doctors are aloud to do now, because of licence restrictions. If you remove un-necessary restrictions you will increase supply and drive down cost. A true capitalist system. 07-08-03 21:33:36 _____________________________________________________
jeremymffingnelson ::: Favorites pure capitalism? pure capitalism makes blind assumptions that dont apply to the real world. pure capitalism lead to child labor in the US, and slavery. See: economic reasoning - imperfect information. 07-08-05 04:09:26 _____________________________________________________
kaya051285 ::: Favorites that is not caused by capitalism. capitalism actually stops that! when i mean pure capitalism i mean. 1: no subsidies 2: very few licensing 3: very few planning laws 4: almost zero tax 5: no capital gains tax 6: more competition in money, atm we have a monopoly central bank 7: free trade 8: almost zero tariffs right now, the world has not seen true capitalism 07-08-05 06:15:46 _____________________________________________________
DanielMurphy007 ::: Favorites actually, the free market is what got rid of child labor in the US 07-08-05 11:04:38 _____________________________________________________
jeremymffingnelson ::: Favorites how do you figure? child labor still exists today. i thought it was laws that got rid of child labor, and the government intervening to stop slavery. one of the huge reasons why the US is so rich is because of all the free labor riding tails of unpaid slave labor. 07-08-06 03:14:54 _____________________________________________________
DanielMurphy007 ::: Favorites Slavery was a doomed economic system that was going to end with or without the Civil War. Child labor ends when parents are no longer poor enough to have to send their kids to work. The reason we still have some child labor, is because some people are still that poor. The laws sound nice, but they don't feed people, instead of working they can starve? Speed limits don't stop speeding, child labor laws don't stop child labor. Only economics can make people richer 07-08-06 12:27:54 _____________________________________________________