1) There is an infinite demand for health care. The cost prohibits the infinite use. There will be a greater demand than supply for doctors. So Med Schools will end up accepting crappier applicants. Right now they take the best of the best. You want some kid with a 3.0 operating on you or do you want the guy who had a 3.98 operating on you. Anyone who has been to college knows there is a huge difference between the 2 students.

2) Canada’s health insurance program is failing too. The fact is, though,
that Canada’s system is riddled with problems, many stemming from inadequate funding. As a result, delays of several months are common before seeing a specialist or getting nonemergency surgery.

3) A majority of patients who currently receive “free” (read: taxpayer-funded) healthcare continually seek care for the most minor afflictions. Why wouldn’t they? It’s “free” to them so they visit the doctor’s office several times a month. “Free” prescriptions for over-the-counter medication such as Tylenol are very common. Patients who refuse to wait for an appointment make their way to the ER for things such as headaches. If you were ever an ER nurse, I know you can verify this.

4) It also decreases incentives to “shop around” for people who are not receiving direct taxpayer-funded care. If you are paying a set amount per month and your copay is ten dollars per office visit no matter where you go, why bother to look for a better price? Government imposed wage controls during the 1940’s carry a large part of the blame for this current state of affairs. Unable to offer competitive salaries, companies started to offer healthcare benefits as a way to lure prospective employees into jobs.

5) Yes, you do have a right to health care, just as you have a right to food, shelter and property. However, you have no “right” to force others to provide these things for you – All “free” medical care is paid for through taxes stolen from other people.

Who pays for medications? Who pays for the physicians’, nurses’ and office staff wages during visits?

6) When you blindly support a system that gives politicians and bureaucrats the power to force others to follow a plan, those politicians and bureaucrats will receive their orders from those with the most money – and you can guarantee this will not be you, your friends or your family. The power of government will be used against you as you are forced to use medicines or accept treatments from well-connected health care companies. You will lose the right to research and choose what treatment is right for you!

7) Want surgery past age 65? Not going to happen, too many people want health care so there will be waiting lists for everything. In many Universal health care coverage countries you WONT BE ELIGIBLE for a transplant after 65. You wont be allowed into the ICU if you are over 70. Sweet. That means next time you get hurt when you are old you just fucking die. Universal? HAH! Its not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4u5×9XAsAs

8 ) “If universal health care works for the elderly under Medicare, then why not for the rest of us?” If that’s true, then the Democratic nominee for President should definitely work this one into his or her acceptance speech, starting now.

But there’s a tragic flaw in that argument. Universal care-socialized medicine-for the elderly does NOT “work,” even on its own terms. Many services, such psychotherapy and mental health care, are only partially covered, if at all, under Medicare. It has to be this way; otherwise the program would be slated for bankruptcy even sooner than it already is. Why do you think Medicare “supplemental insurance” is commonplace, if not essential? Because “universal coverage” guaranteed by political funding is a myth. And if you think it’s a myth now, wait until the baby boomers come of age and Medicare faces certain bankruptcy. And if “universal coverage for all” passes, then the price tag for the U.S. Treasury goes into the billions or trillions of dollars. And you thought the Iraq war was expensive.

9) None of these dollars-and-cents concerns address the deeper problem with socialized medicine: What it does to the doctor? Although politicians may applaud themselves for “giving” everyone health insurance for free, doctors pay the biggest price by being at the mercy of the bureaucracy and injustice created by this monolithic system.

Also, once the private insurance sector (or what’s left of it) is completely out of business, which will be inevitable if not outright mandatory, doctors will have no choice but to follow government dictates. As it stands now, medical reimbursement rates for doctors are spiraling downward, even as tax rates go up. The Governor of California even has the audacity to try and make doctors foot some of the bill for socialized medicine in that state.

“Universal Care” will drive a permanent wedge between the patient and the doctor. Imagine if the government took control over YOUR chosen profession, career or job and dictated your every move, including exactly what you could earn in that job-whether you do it well or not.

10) Power-hungry politicians feed off the irrationality of the citizenry. If the citizenry were more rational, there would be no place in the political system for politicians who value power over freedom and justice. Today’s problems with medical care are the fault of the people who want the results of capitalism while instructing their leaders to install more socialism.

Obama healthcare failure LOL