Quote Originally Posted by Bong30
So if Competition will give us the best product (ie health care, cars, widgets) whatever...

Who is Single payer health care the best for? We know its not us!
I would think that a single payer system would be best for anyone in this country who does not feel like funding a completely corrupt and ethically challenged industry. The health care industry in America is fucking twisted and is obviously not working in the way Adam Smith would have liked it to have run. Decent, affordable health care in this country is a myth and because of this thousands of people die every year from easily preventable illnesses. Now I believe that keeping a significant portion of this country alive and healthy is an important matter of domestic security and as such the responsibility of the federal government. I do not see what is so hard to understand about this concept. As long as the insurance companies continue to make decisions based solely on their profit margins there will never be affordable health care in this country.

I think you need to decide whether your particular political ideology is more important than the well being of your fellow country men.

Can you also please explain why single payer systems are so terrible when they work so well for every other country who uses them?
Ramulux Reviewed by Ramulux on . Single Payer health Care In 2003 Obama was quoted as saying he wants single payer Health Care. Ok if it is single payer, doesnt that mean it lacks competition? Forget Democrat, and Republican left, right whatever..... It was described by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations (1776) and later economists as allocating productive resources to their most highly-valued uses. and encouraging efficiency. Later microeconomic theory distinguished between perfect competition and imperfect competition, concluding Rating: 5