| Mr Khan said: The only reason people don't want a public option, by and large, is because of scare tactics, though. I mean, yeah, there is a dedicated core of libertarians out there who have a logic behind their reasoning of why big government is bad, but most people are just scared of the Red Spectre.
We'll look back on this and laugh in 50 years, when all the baby boomers (raised in the shadow of the Cold War), are dead, and the large numbers of people who harbor this irrational fear of socialism are out of the system (and the fear-mongers with their own agendas can stop taking advantage of them) |
I think we'll look back at this in 50 years and say "Whew, we came really close to screwing up our healthcare system." quite honestly. But I'm one of those libertarians you mentioned...
Where I think your wrong is that what you consider people just being scared by fearmongering etc...is actually just people talking about existing socialized medicine as practiced by other nations. The left in general seems to me to think that talking about what actually happens under these kinds of systems is off limits simply because it is scarey...thats actually why it needs to be talked about though because it is frightening the kinds of things that happen on a regular basis in these systems. And nobody can actually say "Well thats not the plan we're talking about for the US" because there is no one single plan at the moment, and a socialized style plan is on the table as you yourself pointed out. We would be fools not to look at other examples of what has happened before trying the system ourselves.
The entire conversation is really moot though at the moment since we can't even afford it. Unless someone is silly enough to think a budget nuetral socialized medicine plan is anything but a pipe dream.
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