Saturday, September 5, 2009

Healthcare Reform = Socialism?

As many Americans have heard that President Obama's health care reform, designed to help uninsured Americans get the health care they need, is a hotly debated subject that everyone must argue.

Those for it say it'll help the uninsured and under-insured (or those who can't afford health insurance) get the health care without paying so much. Enough said.

Now for those who are against reform say that the cost to support this program is tremendous, about $1 trillion tremendous. Along with increased government bureaucracy control, little incentive for medical innovation from little profit, & decreased quality of medical services due to so many people coming in and limited services. Since this health care reform is anything like other countries who have Universal Healthcare (care for everyone) long lines are inevitable.

I see that a "right" to health care means anyone born in the nation are automatically given the right to health care. The government "must" provide medicine because citizens have the "right" to these services. Well this proposal is benevolent and all who is going to pay for all that? Health care costs rise every year and government run programs aren't always the best and with the amount of paperwork & bureaucratic inefficiencies will worsen those costs.

I don't think that throwing money into the system will resolve the problem. Throwing tax dollars into a program that not only create a long-waited medical services but also the problem of the national debt.

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