Obamacare a glimpse in the future

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by joeydb

You do understand that every time the government subsidizes something that the taxpayer is getting soaked, right? The government needs to get entirely out of the way on health care. Not meddling at all. Let the market adjust, expand the providers by making it more palatable for doctors to practice, and the costs will go down.

It's the non-paying deadbeats that are causing health care costs to skyrocket in the first place. That's why a 68 cent aspirin costs $10 in the hospital.

If you want to promote a society where if you can't pay then you don't get treated, then so be it, but I hope that never happens. There are a lot of legitimate discussions you can have on funding and whether the haves should be supporting the have nots, but as a human being I don't know how you could turn your head to someone in need, regardless of their ability to pay. Of course there are abusers and there are parts of the health care system that are corrupt and rotten, but I don't know how the supposed leading country in the World can have health care based on an ability to pay.