Someone explain how putting our country $800 billion in the hole will help us.

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Actually capitalism would work just fine if the government would stay out of things. And the high cost of health care is the perfect example of capitalism working. No everyone can't be covered, but this isn't a perfect world.

Wouldn't denying an individual health care be the same as denying the right to life and liberty? Isn't that what our country was founded on? Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all?

The reason American scientists are working on cures for cancer's and the reason they have had some success with ovarian cancer treatment and others is because they are compensated very well for these discoveries.

Ok, but then you run into problems when that cure for cancer is discovered. Don't you think the people who discovered it would want to be compensated for it? If that's the case, which it defiantly will be under capitalism, then we will have a cure that only the wealthiest individuals in our society could afford. We can't just give the treatment away, because then the life work of all those scientists would have no gain (besides helping people). We can't charge outrageous sums to the upper class and smaller sums to the lower class for treatment, because that's not fair...and it's not capitalism

Plus look where capitalism has gotten us in the pharmaceutical industry. We have doctors and psychiatrists doubling as drug dealers. I believe you will have a hard time finding a family that doesn't have at least one of its members caught up in some kind of "legal" drug addiction. Humans got along decent throughout the course of history without man made pain killers and anti depressant pills, and now they are a part of everyday life.

Socialized healthcare will just mean horrible care for all Americans rather than a few. Scientists will stop releasing cures because they won't get paid enough for doing so. Why exactly to people travel from all over the world to get treated in America?

I don't believe that, look at Canada. Lots of healthy people up there.