Healthcare SHOULD be Universal. It is a Human Right and a Necesscity.
No, it is not a human right. You have no right to anything beyond what you earn from the moment you're born until the moment you die. It bothers me that socialists now consider services provided by the work of others to be their "right". You are no more entitled to health care paid for by others than you are entitled to any other property of theirs.
Healthcare SHOULD be Universal. It is a Human Right and a Necesscity. A healthier country= a healither economy.
I had this discussion with my aunt. This implies that socialized health care creates a healthier economy. It does not. Michael Moore says we should "eliminate the profit motive". What offends me the most is that the only reason the quality of care in the USA is as high as it is is because of the profit motive - BECAUSE of capitalism - Michael Moore suggests that we can have the same degree of production and efficiency without a profit incentive! This is so absurd it is pollution to my brain to even read it. Without the profit motivator, production decreases or halts completely - it seems that just like basic economics, like the Second Amendment, is something Michael Moore has absolutely no idea about.
It's called the Big Tradeoff - fairness and efficiency. If the government forcibly redistributes the pie, the pie becomes smaller for everyone.
Moreover, perverse things happen in socialized medicine. Like 16-month waiting lists for surgery. Like three lithotripters in a major city, wheras in America there are 300 in a similar city. Like the system subsidizing the care of upper middle class people who could easily afford it themselves.
There is plenty of suffering in the world, and what galls me is the leftist view that redistributing money to the less well off in North America is the best place to do so. If you truly wanted to minimize suffering, you'd hand that money to starving Africans. I say, let a rich world renal victim die and spend the thousands of government dollars saving literally hundreds of people in Africa. THIS would be the compassionate thing to do. No?
Of course, the real way to minimize suffering is to have fair rules. Trade with Africans, have a large economy, and things will be best in the long run. Even if people die in the meantime. Under socialist policies, MORE people die and get sick. This is another thing that offends me about socialists, the fact that they don't understand that both capitalism and socialism cause harm, but capitalism causes the least amount of harm of the two.
