RE: The System The Republicunts Think is so Great
June 15, 2014 at 9:27 am
(This post was last modified: June 15, 2014 at 10:35 am by Heywood.)
(June 15, 2014 at 1:18 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(June 15, 2014 at 12:11 am)Heywood Wrote: CD it does no good to give everyone in the town food stamps to buy food if the only grocery store in that town only supplies enough food to feed half of them.
This is indeed a multifaceted problem that needs to be solved in a particular order. Obamacare and Single payer fail because they exclude critical steps.
If your goal is healthcare for everyone, step 1 is to start producing enough healthcare for everyone.
Look, I'm no fan of Obamacare. My preference would have been a single-payer system, along with incentives to increase the pool of available care.
There is, IMHO, no step 1. There are steps that need to be taken concurrently, or sequentially, all of which are necessary to ensuing everyone has access to care.
It's shameful to me that in a country as rich as ours, that we can accept that all people don't have access to health care. These are all solvable problems.
Single payer doesn't give people access to healthcare if there isn't enough healthcare to go around.
If the government can build roads and employ policemen why can't they build hospitals/doctors offices and employ doctors and nurses? If the government can recruit and train an army of soldiers why can't they recruit and train an army of health care providers? I have no problem with government providing healthcare as long as there is also no impingement on a private market that works alongside it.
Edit: Also we can't be borrowing money to do it either.
