Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Forbes Breaking News" channel.

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  46.  @THYCR3AT0R  For all the criticisms of American capitalism, most of the problems with our health care system are caused by government, not solved by government. You probably think evil insurance companies are at the heart of it, I'm guessing. Do you know where health insurance came from? It came during the Roosevelt administration, when he imposed wage freezes like the good fascist he was, during the Great Depression. Health care benefits were a loophole big corporations could exploit to circumvent the wage freezes, thereby giving big corporations a nice, government-created competitive advantage in the labor market. Insurance companies came along after that. Before that, nobody dreamed of there being such a thing as health insurance. You just did the best you and your community could do, and there was a lot more community spirit back then, because people knew that they needed to look out for one another. You can't insure your health. Not really. For an insurance system to work like it does on cars, homes and such, there's a ceiling. You can "total" a car. You can consider a house a "total loss." But you can't put a dollar figure on the value of a human life. This health insurance made it possible, then, for bureaucrats to come in and decide what your life was worth. Med-4-All puts bureaucrats in charge of what, when, how much, and who gets health care, and believe me, the bureaucrats and politicians will make sure THEY are at the front of the line, and you and I will get what's left over. Do you know how long you have to wait for cardio, cancer, hip-replacement and many other surgeries in Canada or the UK? Do you know how many people come to the USA to receive cancer treatments that are unavailable in those countries, because their health-care mafia deem them improper? But we're not that far away from what's going on under socialized medicine in other countries. Do you realize how many extra paper-pushers a doctor has to hire just to fill out insurance and government paperwork? I think the doctors themselves spend something like 1/3 or their work day filling out forms rather than treating patients. Government involvement in the health care industry is far from a panacea. In fact, it results in drugs being MORE expensive than they have to be, because there's no profit in drugs after the patent expires. Why give you something off the shelf, when they can charge you up the ass for something new? They SAY it's "better" but is it really? Then there's the matter of pricing. As the single biggest consumer of health care (Medicare, Medicaid, etc.), the government decides what it will pay for a treatment, whether it meets the cost or not. So who makes up the difference? The taxpayer who not only has to pay for Medicare and Medicaid, but also has to pay inflated insurance rates because hospitals charge the insured WAY more than they charge the government. Economics always has the final say and when you promise everything to everyone and you run out of resources, you cut corners and the quality of care goes down. But hey. Everybody's treated exactly the same, so it's fair, right? No. The rich people still get whatever they require. It's the blokes in the middle who WORK for a living who end up getting hurt. The first law of economics is that resources are not infinite. The first law of politics is to ignore the 1st law of economics. We'll just SAY we're handling everything and everyone will shut up, apparently. That, by the way, is why you wait for so long in UK and Canada for many treatments. Sometimes you die before you've ever been to a doctor. This is the same for ANYthing the government guarantees. It seems good for a while, but reality always has the final word. This is why people waited in bread lines in the Soviet Union. Adolf Hitler made bread his #1 priority "for the people." Bread shortages instantly became chronic throughout the tenure of the 3rd Reich. If you want to destroy a product or service, just nationalize/collectivize it. What a long rant. Just sick and tired of economically illiterate socialists, who know nothing of the real world, insisting they know more than everybody else because they're "educated."' But as the saying goes, "Garbage in. Garbage out."
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