That's false. For example, the VA system (a government run hospital) provides the same care at 20% less cost.
The VA is terrible! I'm a veteran, and the VA is a last resort.
Hospitals are very ineffecient, and right now there is no incentive to become more effecient. Also, having the best tech doesn't mean anything if it has to be rationed according to wealth.
Hospitals do have incentives to being better than a neighboring hospital because it brings in revenue. Where there is no incentive, is under the nationalized health care system. The only incentive is getting rid of you.
Then why is it so expensive? Private companies are competing for government contracts and the costs are through the roof.
The government has to pay
prevailing wages when they contract out.
1 million americans are forced into bankruptcy each year due to medical bills. People actually have to choose between life and bankrupting their family. The problem here is the health care system, not nationalization or government programs.
Yes, you are right. There does need to be some kind of public option available, because there are some circumstances beyond our control. The issue is that under Obamacare, the Public Option plan will cover approximately 2% of the population. And of that, they cap the amount of care a family is entitled to.
The greatest issue, seems to me, is the feasibility factor. It's all good and well to say how something theoretically works, and it's another thing to demonstrate how it would work. Given the size and population of the United States, how would it work?
Just let them die in the streets?
Nobody dies in the streets. It's against the law not to treat someone in an emergency. This already happens now, and the government pays for it.
We are a moral people, are we not? Conservatives claim that we are a christian nation, so shouldn't we be helping the least fortunate in our society as Jesus commanded? Or should we turn our backs on the very people who built this nation in the last century?
I don't care what conservatives or liberals say. I don't take cues from them, and I'm not religious. Turn our back on who, though?
I guess I'm not seeing what you are seeing. You are pointing to a moral imperative. What moral imperative do you speak of?
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from mistaken conviction." — Blaise Pascal