| TheRealMafoo said:
You mean the ones actually using the service pay more for it? Um... yea, that's how it works :p. I feel though, for that demographic, even if they are paying the most, they would be paying less then they pay today. Again, I am not against government subsidizing particular demographics. I am just against the US government running anything. I worked for them for 8 years, and understand how the government works (or doesn't work). Nothing we put in the hands of the US government is going to be better then something regulated by the dollar. It might work great on other places, but our government was not designed to handle social programs well. |
They might be paying less, but that would be because they would pay nothing at all. With emergency services, and hospitals being forced to offer some form of medical care in life or death situations. Have a long history of heart disease, and live in a crime ridden neighborhood? Better hope you can pay the sky-high premium the hospital would need to charge to maintain any form of profitability.
I don't buy the crap about not being able to set-up a system for socialized health care either. We have managed to have police, fire, postal, road work, and a number of other essential service be government run and function fairly well. FEMA even seems to have found a way to run somewhat efficiently after being exposed as entirely incompetent a few years back.
