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Healthcare is always rationed, though. It can be rationed by need, ability to pay, or some other way, but there's no system for infinite healthcare yet develope

• msandford 10y ago
  Yup! Everything is rationed so far, except maybe for air. But the point is, you're going from implicit rationing (you can have whatever you can afford) to explicit rationing (we can only do X MRIs per week and it'll take 37 weeks until it's your turn). There are a lot of folks who don't like that idea, and I can see why. A lot of proponents of single-payer completely play this down and pooh-pooh folks who bring up that point by saying "oh it'll never be like soviet medicine where only well connected people get better" but don't explain at all how our government will be 100% guaranteed not to do that. And if you can't lay out how that'll happen in blindingly obvious detail and personally promise them that we'll start executing people if it goes badly, well, there are a lot of folks who aren't terribly trusting. And they're not necessarily wrong.