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I live and work around these cretins all day long. The conversations I have to hear on health care are amazing. Remember, this is from employees that have some of the best health care insurance that a company can offer.
1) The government will decide what care you get.
YOU MEAN AS OPPOSE TO THE INSURANCE COMPANY!?! The government basically won't decide those things, they'll decide what they pay for things, JUST LIKE THE INSURANCE COMPANY. But the reality is that health care is political as anything so just like one can never cut social security, or mess with the infamous "third rails" in politics, I'd almost rather "the government" be in this role than the insurance companies. Even now, with HMO's and all, our state government has passed all manner of laws dictating what kinds of rules the health insurance companies can and cannot enact.
2) It'll take forever to see a specialist.
Tried to see certain ones lately? 6 weeks for a dermatology appointment. 6 - 8 weeks for a neurosurgery. Heck, the primary care folks usually have at least a 2 day wait, and if you need something like a physical, an annual, a mammogram, etc. you usually have to schedule at least 6 weeks in advance, my wife schedules them 3 months in advance.
3) It'll be expensive.
Ours is paid something like 80% by the company. I know folks that are paying the full price out of their own pocket, even for their "employment based" group plan. These right wingers around here have no idea how expensive health insurance already is. When you realize the magnitude of the administrative costs associated with health insurance, the government almost can't do worse. Medicare is something like 3%. Even if they were inefficient otherwise, they'd have a hard time catching up to the cost burdens that the insurance industry applies.
4) The government will screw it up.
The same folks who want the government to run more prisons, have a bigger military, want bigger police forces, more courts, more prosecutors, and oh by the way always want the government to build more roads, don't believe that the government can run an insurance program (even though they already run something like 3 of the biggest ones in the world).
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