akuma587 said:
Kasz216 said:
TheRealMafoo said:
akuma587 said:
Just like when the government decided to deregulate the health insurance market across a number of states, like Texas, and rates skyrocketed? Damn that government involvement! The government should get involved way less often!
And note, I wasn't talking about Obama's healthcare plan. I think there are better ways to do universal healthcare than Obama is proposing, but the American public is still pretty resistant to true universal healthcare.
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There is a huge difference between the government regulating something, and the government running something.
When you give money to the US government for the purposes of providing a service, the level of efficiency is orders of magnitude lower than the private sector. Find me one example where that is not true.
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Well when it comes to healthcare the VA has one of the best and most cost efficient healthcare systems in the country at the moment.
Of course it used to be one of the worst.
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You're lying Kasz. That's just not possible. Anytime the government does something it is inefficient and raises costs automatically. That's what Mafoo said, so it has to be true.
Its just not possible that the insurance companies in the private sector have abused favorable legislation passed for them and have set prices at artificially high levels. That just can't happen. The market can do no wrong and the government can do no right. The government just couldn't do it better than the private sector. Its flat out impossible.
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One major advantage for the VA, they don't take people off the street. If they had to adhere to the same rules that normal hospitals have to, they would run at a massive additional cost. One far worse then public health institutions.
