Health care is a basic human right. If your child is sick and you don't take them to the doctor and that child dies, you are on trial for murder. Like that family that prayed for their child to get better and the kid died, now the parents are in some serious shit over that.
It is a crock of shit that a doctor or hospital can refuse to treat you, all they have to do is stablize you and send you packing. In my book turning away a person that is in serious need of care constitutes murder if the person dies.
Health care should be for everyone, I'm thankful for places like Planned Parenthood that provided care for womens health issues, since there are so many uninsured women in this country.
Healthcare is not a right, despite what you would believe.
Now, do I see a problem with the fact that the cost of Health Care is rising faster than inflation? Yes!
But I don't want the government interfering in the markets. It is their interference with the markets that has caused Healthcare to continuously rise faster than inflation, just like it was their interference in the markets that caused house prices to rise faster than inflation.
I don't think the best solution is to socialize health care. The best solution is to increase the amount of competition in the market by producing more doctors. You don't address the issue of high prices and lack of health care by eliminating supply, or controlling demand. The only way to ensure that prices will fall is if you add supply to the industry. Hell, we can make it like a form of affirmative action, find some people that are from economically depressed areas and pay for their education to be doctors.
More supply means lower demand, because the doctors would be forced to compete for customers. Yes, their would be some doctors that would not be able to attract enough customers, but if allowed to do so private charities would elect to provide free health care.
The problem isn't that capitalism is evil. If Capitalism was truly evil, our great institutes of learning, Carnegie-Mellon, Princeton, Harvard and Yale would have never been founded, because the people that founded them would have kept their money to themselves.
The problem is that the only thing government regulation does is ensure a monopoly. When you require licensure of medical practitioners and pharmacists you prevent people from being able to enter the markets, by raising the cost of doing business.
Another issue that can be used to illustrate this is Medical Marijuana. Government stepped in and interfered in the markets. I have yet to hear either Obama or McCain actually state that they will legalize Marijuana. I have on the other hand heard other candidates state that they will legalize Marijuana. (Ron Paul imparticular)
Healthcare isn't a right, but it is a damn nice thing to have, but the real problem is government regulation and interference in the markets. If I had to describe the Medical Industry in one term, I would describe it as a perpetually inflating bubble. Until the government gets its hands out of the medical industry it will continue to be that way.
Even more hypocritical is the fact that Obama wants to tax people that make more than $250,000 more. The majority of the people that I know that make more than $250,000 a year are doctors, and I can state with a high degree of confidence that they are going to raise their prices to counteract any tax hikes. Thus, once again it is the American Public that ends up stuck paying for the retarded ideas of our public officials.
