Sure, capitalism is great in most circumstances, but do you really want to deal with people who's chief concern is making more money when your life is in danger?
If you ever saw the movie Gangs of New York, you saw what happened with privatized fire fighters. The actually fought over who would put out the fire when the house was burning. Do we really need that?
2007-08-06 06:38:00 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Indeed, why do we have socialized public parks? Certainly we should have private parks. Why do we have socialized police? The police forces should be private, and protect the only people who matter, the rich.
The more we talk about a universal health care plan, the more support it gains. The only thing the health care industry has is their pathetic scare tactics.
2007-08-06 06:43:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
The intrinsic problem with the debate is that the people who are either most for it or against it have never been seriously ill. I think we could have a more reasonable discussion if we qualified statements - that is before you give an opinion you must state whether or not you are seriously ill or have a child that is seriously ill. My father was a cardiac surgeon - generally dealt in potentially life or death situations - and people would be amazed to find out how much their insurance companies interfere in treatment and the overall administration of hospitals. Not all of the interference was bad but it was often questionable at best. My father, an Ivy league trained surgeon, actually had to answer to a desk clerk with a associates degree in the arts from a local community college. Go figure?
2007-08-06 06:47:14 · answer #2 · answered by CHARITY G 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The majority of intelligent nations try to achieve abalance between public neccessities and private sector greed. Canadians believe so strongly that health care should not be for profit that they selected the founder of their public health system as the greatest Canadian of all time.
Unfortunately for the United States the corporate control of drugs and health care is worth trillions. The profit they extract from our need is too enormous for them to give it up without resorting to every dirty trick in the lexicon, and a few not previously recorded.
Do you suppose they have an interest in the computer voting companies? You know they do in the media.
The anger the right has spewed at Hillary Clinton grew directly out of her health care plans. She has never been forgiven for putting people ahead of profit. Any public figure who tries to do the same will be treated the same, so none will. Who is funding the dedicated and instant counterattack on Michael Moore?
The rest of the civilized world has it, but we do not. We must be idiots.
2007-08-06 06:48:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Do doctors fight over who will treat you? Do hospitals fight over who gets the ambulance call? If they did, we'd need to deal with that. But they aren't. As it is, Mr. Bubba Uninsured can go to any hospital he wants to and have them remove the beer bottle from his butt and if he can't pay? Either medicare or you and I will pay for it.
We already have socialized medicine in this country. It's just that this socialized medicine is available only to those who truly need it and can't afford it.
Face it. Folks get what they need and no one's dying in the streets. The concept of 'Socialized Medicine' is simply a rubber chicken being held out by some well known politicians hoping to buy the vote of those within our society that have become far too dependent already.
By the way, did you realize that the numbers of uninsured tossed around by these same politicians include some 25,000,000 illegal aliens who already get medical care through out existing socialized medical program? Kinda doctoring the numbers, don't you think? But it creates a crisis where little exists, so much the better....for them.
2007-08-06 06:56:16 · answer #4 · answered by The emperor has no clothes 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
If I had to choose, I would rather have privatized education then privatized healthcare. They actually give promotions and raises to people in HMO's based on their percentage of rejections.
2007-08-06 07:35:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because there is little profit margin in those fields. To exploit the people, these major corporations must have leverage; and what leverage is best than life and death for you and your loved ones?
2007-08-06 06:49:46 · answer #6 · answered by Mezmarelda 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Capitalism is great for plenty of reasons - and it is always better than centralized planning. So yes, I do want to deal with people whose chief concern is making money - they will give me the service I am willing to pay for. With socialized medicine, like socialized anything, the service provider isn't directly answerable to me, he is answerable to the state. I think the analogy here would be FedEx versus the Post Office.....
2007-08-06 06:44:39 · answer #7 · answered by truthisback 3 · 1⤊ 6⤋
As long as going to the Dr. is not like going to the DMV.
2007-08-06 06:44:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I completely agree. There are a lot of people who don't get it and they take our other social programs for granted.
2007-08-06 06:45:59 · answer #9 · answered by Eisbär 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Teaching is not socialized in the US in the way medicine and health care is being talked about lately, so that's a flaw in your argument.
It's true privatizing things can have poor outcomes, but the same can be said for socializing medicine. Capitalism has it's flaws, but socialized medicine does not mesh with the systems we have in place today.
2007-08-06 06:43:38 · answer #10 · answered by deepseaofblankets 5 · 1⤊ 6⤋