Socialized Health Care in the USA

[kandrathe]

Because government inevitably screws it all up. Government usually has only the best intentions in mind when it thinks of new sweeping programs. Unfortunately, beurocrats do not ever consider the consequences to their actions. While it is regrettable in the first case, and irrelevant in the second, in the case of medicine, it is literally deadly.

From the studies I've seen, wherever it is implemented, NHI has no positive impact on health. It's main aim seems to be to contain costs by government dictum. I believe it reveals the err in socialism, which is to stamp out innovation and competition in attempting to provide a quality good or service at a competitive price.