Can we trust US citizens to use their freedom and autonomy to obtain their own health care?

Answer 1

Yes. People should be given something like Health Savings Accounts, tax shelters for healthcare dollars to spend on their health insurance. If individuals were spending their own money rather than swiping their employee insurance card and not really caring what the medical visit costs you would see hospitals and doctors become more transparent and standardized in their pricing. Free and open competition can work miracles and is a lot more efficient than the alternative: the massive taxation and bureaucracy required for a government run socialized medicine scheme.

Answer 2

no no.

it's a much better idea to give the resources to insurance companies who can then deny the claims of anyone who gets sick.

better still to cripple american industry by sticking them with the cost of insurance of their employees.

yeah, the WHOLE REST OF THE WORLD IS WRONG AND WE ARE RIGHT.

but these same guys will blame labor unions when MORE jobs leave america for this very reason...

Answer 3

It all depends on what opportunities they have had in their lives. If they are crippled vets, or people without a job, how can you expect someone like that to be able to avoid death without the $100,000 kindey transplant that will keep them alive for the next 25 years?

Answer 4

We did and 47 millions still don't have any. I think the problem is not the people but the insurer.

Answer 5

I hope so my friend, I hope so.

Liberty is not billing your fellow man for your health.

Imagine us having to pay for the care of drug addicts, people who ate themselves into diabetes, alcoholics, and to pay for their smoking habits.

Freedom is each person taking responsibility for their own health.

Ron Paul 08' - Believes in the individual people being responsible for themselves.
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