When it comes to universal healthcare, I don't trust the government to handle any program effectively. In essence, it should be a private business matter and the customers should be taking it up with their HMOs and Insurance companies. The fact that the government even got involved and created an healthcare lobby is the real issue. If the playing fields were level(i.e. businesses left to self-regulate) those insurance companies that had shitty service and charged and arm and a leg for it would flounder upon the rocks and wither away into obscurity. The simple fact of the matter is that medical care isn't cheap and in the end somebody is going to be footing the bill. I pay enough taxes already, I'd rather pay fewer taxes and have more money to spend on health insurance.
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"There is no need to suppose that human beings differ very much one from another: but it is true that the ones who come out on top are the ones who have been trained in the hardest school." -- Thucydides
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