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Originally Posted by Derwood
another common catchphrase in this debate.
the quality of health care provided in this country is arguably the best in the world. that's not what the bill is about. it's about access to the health care.
people from other countries aren't coming to America because their insurance systems are bad
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I agree, having the best and the people being able to receive it are 2 different things and people should be able to receive it regardless of their ability to pay.
However, my point was that this bill is NOT doing that. IMHO< this bill WILL widen the gap between classes and the lower classes will receive medical treatment less than what they can today.
I don't think we should lower our standards on medical treatment, but raise them and in doing so find ways to make that health care affordable to ALL, with as little governmental influence as possible.
Take a good look at our educational system. We had the best, no one could come close. The federal government got involved and now our schools are bankrupt and we are barely in the top 10 if at all. Our drop out rates are higher, our teen pregnancies, teen violence and so on. there are many factors but IMHO the past shows me the more the Federal government got involved the worse the education system became.
Another idea for health care, give every state so much money and allow them to figure ways to distribute it into the health system fairly. That way if say Ohio uses the money and makes health care a sliding scale and maximizes lifetime expenses while Michigan just uses the money to pay for the poor and has to continually find new tax monies... we can find what works and what doesn't and work out a national system. I don't believe just putting a national system in and expecting it to work and grow will either work nor grow. They did that to education, put forth a national standard and look what we have, bankrupt schools. Do we really want a bankrupt health care system?