"When the government has people dependent on a medical system it starts to treat them like property and tells them how to live. It also makes decisions on whether they live or die by telling them whether or not they will get an operation."

Switch the word "government" for "private corporations" and you describe the system we have right now.

Corporate bureaucrats, right now, are scouring people's health insurance for excuses to throw them off the rolls based on faulty paperwork, even when no fraud is alleged. This is done in order to raise the corporate profit line and funnel money to shareholders.

Right now, right this very minute, we ration healthcare in America, something c...

"When the government has people dependent on a medical system it starts to treat them like property and tells them how to live. It also makes decisions on whether they live or die by telling them whether or not they will get an operation."

Switch the word "government" for "private corporations" and you describe the system we have right now.

Corporate bureaucrats, right now, are scouring people's health insurance for excuses to throw them off the rolls based on faulty paperwork, even when no fraud is alleged. This is done in order to raise the corporate profit line and funnel money to shareholders.

Right now, right this very minute, we ration healthcare in America, something conservatives rail against. We ration it based on how much you can afford to pay.

Other countries ration healthcare based on other priorities, like making sure all their citizens have access to healthcare. Those countries also tend to have better overall health outcomes than us Americans, and they spend MUCH LESS on administrative costs, because a huge amount of the administrative costs are spent on denying care and kicking people off the rolls.

I'll take a government bureaucrat whose mandate is how do we cover the most people, most effectively, and most cost effectively than corporate bureaucrat whose mandate is how do I spend less money paying for healthcare so I can pay a higher dividend to the private owners of the corporation