The government has messed up the health care situation by taxing it and regulating it too much, so why is the solution more government? If you can't trust the government with your personal privacy and civil liberties, why can you trust them with your money and health? Why should bureaucrats in a distant power center where corporate lobbyists and career politicians run amok be in charge of your well-being instead of you and your doctor?
Maybe if our government wasn't debasing our currency (which hurts the poor the most) and wasn't obscenely taxing every dollar we make or spend (often secretly) and wasn't regulating the market to the point we can't even import cheaper prescription drugs from our neighbor to the north (itself supposedly one of those enlightened bastions of compassionate authoritarian health care where you get to go to jail if you don't play along), health care wouldn't be a problem in the United States.
But unfortunately what we have is corporatized medicine and managed care (HMOs, Medicare, Medicaid), which means the government is extensively involved while still being nominally not in charge. It obviously makes everything worse, so people clamor for the government to "finally" get involved, not realizing it's been mucking around all along.
Charities would be far more common if the government didn't account for 30-35% of our entire economy. We literally slave away for a third of the working year to feed the Leviathan. And with all that wealth in the hands of so few, decisions are not made rationally, as they are when it's individual consumers controlling the fruit of their own labor. Instead, they're made politically, to ensure the politicians get reelected and the special interests keep their seats at the table (or snouts in the public trough, if you prefer a more realistic description).
Besides, if health care is a right, what if only a few people decide to become doctors? In a free market, they would get to charge millions, attracting more people into the profession and driving their prices down substantially. With the government calling the shots, however, they might decide to make him or a select few the only legal providers, but suppress prices anyway, thereby leading to months-long waiting lines even for important surgeries.
The government might also decide to let those few doctors charge whatever prices they want and simply subsidize them, which takes out any measure of accountability since the government can simply not tell the taxpayers, lie to the taxpayers, or even change the electoral rules so the taxpayers can't really do anything about it at the ballot box. Hell, those select providers might have lobbyists ensuring that they're the only game in town.
And if health care is a right but there is a shortage of doctors, do people lose that right? Does government make someone provide that right? There's no such problem with the real natural rights that people have (life, liberty, and property) since it requires nothing to be taken from anyone else, only that everyone respects each other's rights. Government can tell one person to leave another alone, and it can punish the first for not doing so, but it can't make things appear where they don't exist, which is why the "welfare rights" philosophy falls apart.
Also, once you're too deep into socialism, there's no turning back. Even by raising taxes to provide a new service, government pushes the people on the margins into the system, and they develop a dependency on it, a loyalty to it, and an unwillingness to or even guilt about opposing it, despite being a victim of it. Hence, people become serfs to the state. They cease to be unique human beings and become cogs in the machine. Fear of liberty (which promises no comforts but delivers many, while the alternative promises many but delivers none) and blind trust in the abilities and word of authority leads to slavery.
also in any universal healthcare system there are no incentives for
people to be healthy
insurance co. to be honest
govt./drug co. to keep cost down
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ect.
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This too. Where's the incentive to be healthy and pursue a safe lifestyle when you're covered no matter what? Why should others subsidize you if you eat bad foods, smoke a lot, drink too much, or go skydiving with regularity?
