How every much you might want to read between the lines and come up with some government conspiracy the article clearly states "The House handed President Bush a victory Saturday, voting to expand the government's abilities to eavesdrop without warrants on foreign suspects whose communications pass through the United States."
While I agree with the first part of your argument that Healthcare is a special case, I disagree with the second part. Most notibly this
Do you really want the people making decisions for you at the most vulnerable point in your life to be motivated by how much money they can make off of you, rather than what would be best for you? With the exception of elective stuff like plastic surgery, health care just doesn't operate in a free market, and allowing a profit motive is just asking to be exploited.
I see a flaw in the logic here that I see in many posts. You assume that the person providing the treatment and the entity that they work for as one in the same. When you go to a hosipital for life-saving surgery the head of the board of directors is not putting the new heart in your chest, a surgen is. This surgen doesn't get a bonus for having you die on the table. This surgen is also honor bound to do everything in his power to heal you. So in reality the quality of your treatment isn't determined by the hospital but by the skill of the doctor and nurses on staff. How much you pay for the doctor is generally on par with the skill of the doctor.
I would like to bring into the discussion something that I haven't seen talked about but here in America there is a major problem with doctors and hospitals being sued for malpractice. This is a major cost to the medical institutions in this country. Does anyone have any insight as to how socializing medicine with effect this?
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How every much you might want to read between the lines and come up with some government conspiracy the article clearly states "The House handed President Bush a victory Saturday, voting to expand the government's abilities to eavesdrop without warrants on foreign suspects whose communications pass through the United States."
Do you really want the people making decisions for you at the most vulnerable point in your life to be motivated by how much money they can make off of you, rather than what would be best for you? With the exception of elective stuff like plastic surgery, health care just doesn't operate in a free market, and allowing a profit motive is just asking to be exploited.
I see a flaw in the logic here that I see in many posts. You assume that the person providing the treatment and the entity that they work for as one in the same. When you go to a hosipital for life-saving surgery the head of the board of directors is not putting the new heart in your chest, a surgen is. This surgen doesn't get a bonus for having you die on the table. This surgen is also honor bound to do everything in his power to heal you. So in reality the quality of your treatment isn't determined by the hospital but by the skill of the doctor and nurses on staff. How much you pay for the doctor is generally on par with the skill of the doctor.
I would like to bring into the discussion something that I haven't seen talked about but here in America there is a major problem with doctors and hospitals being sued for malpractice. This is a major cost to the medical institutions in this country. Does anyone have any insight as to how socializing medicine with effect this?