Why You Are Wrong: Socialized Healthcare.
I promised that I wasn’t going to do this anymore but it seems that some people are still trying to force me into this Socialized Medicine debate. I have noticed that a lot of those people do live in countries that have governmentally provided healthcare and that may lead some people astray into thinking that you are not and should not be responsible for taking care of yourself and your own body.
First, let’s take a look at governments in general. Would you be willing to agree that all governments are primarily interested in maintaining the power and position of those in government than taking care of the people? If you said yes then why would you possibly want to hand your healthcare (read: the care of your body) over to the same politicians that you do not trust as a general rule? Second, all of the countries that have socialized medicine are some of the most taxed in the world.
England is the most taxed country in Europe and their healthcare system is already swamped and unable to provide the demanded care for everyone in the country who was promised healthcare in its inception. The reason for this is simple and it has happened in every country with socialized medicine, all of the waiting lists are growing and they certainly are NOT slowing. When you provide a service that people perceive as free people begin to take advantage of that service every time they think they need it. That means that every doctor’s office is filled to capacity with people that have the sniffles instead of the people who actually need help.
Wealthy people in countries like Canada come to the US to pay for their medical procedures, even waiting until they can afford to come to get those procedures by our doctors because of the expediency that they can obtain the work. All of the best doctors in the world want to work for the rate that they want to charge and the main problem with the affordability of privatized healthcare is the pharmaceutical companies and the healthcare insurance companies and not the doctors, the doctors are the bottom rung of the system and they take all of the shit for it.
When you accept that the government is going to take control of your healthcare you are also going to have to accept the fact that they are going to make it a law that you will HAVE to qualify for government healthcare. What does that mean to you? All of a sudden every politician in Washington has the right to tell you what you can eat, how much of it you can eat, what you can smoke, what you can drink, how much you need to exercise, how many tattoos you can have, what you are allowed to do with yourself, what sorts of high risk activities you are allowed to engage in, and the list really goes on and on really. Once they are allowed to decide what criteria that you have to meet in order to qualify for the governmental healthcare that you have no choice but to qualify for you are accepting a hell of a lot of regulation into your life.
By and large the majority of people out there seem to think that it is the job and function of government to take care of you. The founding fathers never anticipated that the federal government was ever going to be strong enough to assume this responsibility but here we are facing the inevitability of the advent of the biggest intrusion of privacy ever perpetrated by our government and a lot of people, a lot of morons who don’t want to take care of themselves and want to empower the big magical government mommy and daddy to take care of them are begging for it.
I hear a lot of the people who want the socialized healthcare the same people crying about our corrupt government and can name you four-hundred and fifty seven thousand ways that the government has screwed the pooch begging for that same governmental body to take care of it.
Am I against socialized healthcare? No, but I think it should be a privately run industry with the option of bowing out and taking care of yourself explicitly provided. I am not in favor of the same government that bankrupted Social Security take responsibility for my healthcare especially when I am still going to have to pay for it in tax. I’ll pay for my own doctors, thanks. If you want socialized healthcare for the needy, buy it yourself.

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