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Originally Posted by RichieLion
This is something everybody who is honest knows has to be going on. It's ludicrous to think otherwise with the U.K.'s overburdened, underfunded and understaffed National Healthcare Service.
It will happen here too if government provided healthcare is not stopped.
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Just a couple questions you might expand on, Richie...
- Do you have any support for your gut feeling opinion that the U.K.'s health system is "overburdened, underfunded and understaffed"?
- Regarding your allegation that "it"ll happen here too if it's not stopped", what will happen? Right now more than one-third of the U.S. population is insured under Medicare or Medicaid (almost 50 million under Medicare, including 40 million seniors, and about 53 million under Medicaid). With that many already insured under government-provided health insurance, it seems that we'd have begun to see some evidence of the "death panels" killing people. The only such arguments along those lines that I've seen reported are insurance companies dropping people or refusing payment for procedures and drugs. ObamaCare is based on insurance by private insurance companies, not an expansion of government-provided health insurance. And by the way, ObamaCare prohibits insurance companies from dropping people based on pre-existing conditions or their claim experience!
Any comments or facts to support your opinion?