Quote Originally Posted by Dave Byrd
The reason we're going to have to look at the question of nationalized health care is because big-business-ized health care isn't working and is out of the reach of more and more sick people.
there is little doubt that the health care and insurance industries are filled with abuse and inefficiency and is in desperate need of reform, but placing the entire mess in the hands of government will only serve to exacerbate an already desperate situation. you need only look to the other socialized services that the government provides to see what a mess that bureaucracy will make of things. the duty of government is to protect the rights of its citizens, not to micro-manage their daily affairs.

Certainly it'll be paid for in one way or another, just like it's being paid for right now in our grossly overpriced system by the few who still have insurance and extra cash.
"one way or another"? we all know how it will be paid for, the same way every other faulty social program is paid for. the government way is to overtax the middle and upper classes to pay for the long term care of the poor. little, if any, attempt is ever made provide a means for those in poverty to gain some measure of self-sufficience, merely to entrap them in comfortable poverty. as long as health care is left in the private sector there will be choice. once government get its hands on it, choice disappears and is replaced with mediocrity.