Republican Healthcare Plan

I don't have much to add to this in terms of detail, and I know there's a debate to be had on the details. But as someone who lives in a country, where there's a healthcare service that's free at the point of delivery (barring some minor charges for prescriptions etc, and paying for cosmetic stuff), I'm not sure I recognise the big brother reference.We took a decision to provide automatic healthcare for all, and get everyone to pay some tax to fund it. That's not really symptomatic of a nightmarish, Orwellian dystopia. It's pretty cool really. And we're not even slightly commie 😉

Still not a dystopia though.I don't think that the government being in charge of running something, in and of itself, makes it undesirable. Especially when we vote the government in and out of power every so often.

Often, yes - and when this is the case, this is often as much a reason for improving the public service, as for privatising it.Against that, public services benefit from being available to all, fair, and not at risk of corporate insolvency whilst being relied upon by people.So it's a balance. As I said, in and of itself, something being provided by the government doesn't make it bad - you always need to balance the pros and cons.