http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/09/public-knows-better-than-pols.html
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We should be talking about a single-payer system, which would remove profit from the system (health care companies boost profits by denying care) and place all of us on an equal plane.
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Sorry to tell you but then you will have a very expensive gooferment bureaucracy denying care.
Look at the VA (e.g., “My doc is trying to kill me”). Look at the Indian Health System (e.g., “Don’t get sick after June”). Look at Medicare (e.g., “If medicare denies your claim [for a Jazzy], we give it to you for free!”).
And, when the gooferment bureaucrat decides that you can’t get your hair plug replacement therapy, or that needed “experimental” procedure, to whom are you going to appeal? Your local newspaperman who urged this on you? Your Congressperson?
No! The gooferment is exceeding its role. Want single payer? Move to any of the lovely jurisdictions that have it: Canada, England, Sweden.
And, when you get really sick, come on back.
Progressives always want to give gooferment control. We need to stop this march to socialism before it kills us.
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UPDATE: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/the-government-would-really-like-for-you-to-have-a-wheelchair
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UPDATE: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2011-07-12-wheelchair-medicare-fraud_n.htm
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