If we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical drugs now, how can we afford to pay for doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical drugs, in addition to a new federal bureaucracy to administer a government-run medical system?
…Politics deals with the same problem by making promises that cannot be kept, or which can be kept only by creating other problems that cannot be acknowledged when the promises are made.
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Thomas Sowell : The “Costs” of Medical Care: Part III - Townhall.com
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Check out this argument. It’s not that universal healthcare is a bad thing. It’s not even that it’s not worth paying for. It’s that it’s impossible. Universal Health Care (or something like it) would be a great thing. And, if we actually believe a lot of those things we say we believe about caring for the least among us, it’s probably morally required. But, if we can convince ourselves it’s impossible, we don’t have to worry about it.
Except that it isn’t impossible. The U.K. can do it. Canada can do it. Universal health care does not reduce a country to some kind of Soviet Bloc police state. Massachusetts has managed it. It’s not easy. And it’s almost certain to be difficult. But we can do it.
