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Originally Posted by gimpy117
people's health is a right.
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Fine by me, but declaring it to be a right doesn't mean that the government has to, or even should, get involved in providing it. You also have a right to privacy. Does that mean the government has to guard your front door in order to make sure you get it?
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...and why should we make health a profit based system?
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Because it
is a profit based system.
Now I'm not unsympathetic to a Nationalized Health Care system but that presently does not exist and you can't just switch from one to the other like you turn on a light, even if the idea had complete backing from the medical community, which it doesn't.
First we'd have to train a complete new crop of surgeons, doctors, nurses, technicians orderlies and administrators because few of the existing ones are going to want to leave the much higher paying private practice for government service.
That alone will take quite some time and it won't be cheap.
Meanwhile though we'd also have to spend even more money to rent, buy or build hospitals and clinics all across our huge country in order to give that new crop of medics a place to work once they are ready. And then lets not forget that we'd have to start, collect, file, standardize and store 300 million sets of medical records. A huge undertaking just in itself.
So yeah, we have a right to health care, nobody is stopping you from buying as much as you require, but you can't expect to get it for free.