Socialized Health Care in the USA

[kandrathe]

... come away concluding that socialization is the problem.

Which I did not. Escalating prices are a problem, which are partly fueled by the unchecked payout of Medicare and Medicaid programs. The price of a product will rise to the level that people are willing to pay for it. When the government pays, they don't care so much about the price and instead ration the number of payouts.

Another problem is that we in the US pay a premium price for medication, while people outside the US pay less and in some places pay much less. Which is why our governor runs a Rx Express bus load of seniors up to Canada every month to get prescriptions filled.

The problem of creeping socialism is that first we payed for the elderly, then the children, then the uninsured. Then we give everyone the "choice" to belong or not belong to the government system, until the insurance companies decide to get out of the business since they are competing against the government. Then, when the government dictates the price of medicine and medical procedures the health care systems will become nationalized since hospitals and clinics will be hard pressed to earn a living either. This is the plan, and its not a sweeping change. Its a planned, gradual erosion, where commerce is forced out and government steps in.