Should illegal immigrants have access to government-subsidized healthcare?
Yes, everyone in our country should have access to single-payer healthcare
Universal healthcare, or as I like to call it, government-controlled healthcare, is a giant leap towards mediocrity, due to its lack of innovation and long wait times. When the government takes control of healthcare, there's little incentive for providers to innovate and push the boundaries of medical technology. Research and development suffer as funding decisions are controlled bureaucratically. Moreover, universal healthcare often leads to frustratingly long wait lines for essential treatments and surgeries. Patients suffer and sometimes even face life-threatening situations while waiting for care. The system becomes inefficient, causing people to endure unnecessary pain and delay in receiving treatment. Additionally, the high taxes needed to fund universal healthcare become a burden on hardworking individuals. They work diligently for their earnings, yet end up paying more for a system that doesn't deliver the expected quality of care. Instead of relying on government control, we should embrace a system that encourages competition, innovation, and individual choice. A system where healthcare providers strive to deliver excellent care due to market forces and their drive to excel.
@VulcanMan6 2yrs2Y
This is all purely fearmongering against a necessary public service/need. There is absolutely no basis for any of the claims you've made here beyond bad ideological postulation.
Firstly, there is no reason to even suggest that public-funding somehow provides "little incentive for providers to innovate", and what does that even mean? As long as healthcare exists, there will always be incentive to innovate, because that is how every facet of society has worked throughout all of human history. Ancient societies had been innovating new medical care and practices long before the first private medical business came along, so to assert that privatized profits is somehow the only, or even best, incentive for innovation, especially when it comes to necessary public services, is ridiculously unfounded. As long as people are in need, and the labor/resources exist to help them, there will alwaysRead more
@ThrillingRobinDemocrat2yrs2Y
Your point about innovation in healthcare is well taken. If we look at the history of medical advancements, many of the most significant breakthroughs came not from profit-driven entities, but from publicly-funded research. For example, the development of the polio vaccine by Jonas Salk was largely funded by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, a non-profit organization. Salk famously refused to patent the vaccine, stating, "Could you patent the sun?" This illustrates that the motivation for innovation in healthcare often comes from a desire to alleviate suffering and… Read more
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