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Article is a hyperbole filled rant light on facts and heavy on rhetoric. Doesn't belong on HN. That said, healthcare is a demographic and economic issue - peri
by rrggrr 9y ago
Article is a hyperbole filled rant light on facts and heavy on rhetoric. Doesn't belong on HN.
That said, healthcare is a demographic and economic issue - period. If there's enough money to cover all American's healthcare needs it is pure political gold to do so and no need for debate. There isn't enough money. If the United States were a cruise ship, it would be sinking in debt (eg. 100% of US GDP) and feature 50 swimming pools in which most states are simultaneously sinking in debt - Illinois being the standard bearer of US fiscal catastrophe.
This is the reality a half century of fiscal irresponsibility and irrational optimism has brought. Cold, hard realism is the only remedy.
- skizm 9y ago> If there's enough money to cover all American's healthcare needs it is pure political gold to do so and no need for debate. I think you are completely missing the debate. The arguments against universal healthcare are 1) If I am healthy, why should I be paying (through taxes) for sick people to go to the hospital, 2) standard of care would become worse if it were government run (wait hours to see a doctor that you can't pick), and 3) less innovation would occur due to lower profits being seen by drug companies, hospitals, etc. I disagree with nearly all these points, but those are the arguments, not "we don't have the money".
- rrggrr 9y ago1) Why should I spend the money. 2) The government doesn't have enough money to resource it. 3) Lower profits (money) = less innovation. Its ALL about money, and not inappropriately so.
- thatcat 9y agoHow exactly do insurance co. profits benefit innovation? If there wasn't a categorical rejection of a single payer system in the us it seems there would be plenty of money.
- bryanlarsen 9y ago"There isn't enough money." Every other developed country has enough money, and most of them have far less than the US.
- rrggrr 9y agoNope. Social welfare is crushing the balance sheets of most of the countries you have in-mind. There is no way to escape demographic reality. http://www.debtclocks.eu/public-debt-and-budget-deficits-comparison-of-the-eu-member-states.html http://www.debtclocks.eu/public-debt-and-budget-deficits-com...