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...terms of what government shouldn't do? Government is not always the most efficient organization to deliver services. I think people should have affordable, high-quality health care, but I don't want to see a single-payer system. I believe in universal coverage, but that doesn't mean I want the government deciding how that health care gets delivered or what services are offered. I want the doctors to be able to do that. I want choice and competition. I'm certainly a conservative - I think government tends to be bureaucratic, it doesn't tend to be efficient...
...socialized” medicine by rationing care restricts choice. Individuals must then rely on the state for medical access, rather than their own willingness to pay. The extra costs associated with the government picking up emergency room visits is worth it to thwart the slide into single-payer healthcare...
...Witness the taboo that is single-payer health care, something which no Democratic candidate short of Dennis Kucinich is publicly supporting. Self-described progressives can’t understand those who brush off their inexorable logic. European countries, they point out, spend a fraction of what we do on health care but have healthier populations. Thus, a single-payer system is obviously the solution...
...liberals’ attempts to capture the moral high ground have thus far been weak or incoherent, especially in their moral case for single-payer health care. Such a system, by funneling most health care spending into the public sector, eliminates the private sector, and thus inequity. Millionaires, they beam, have to wait in the same lines for surgery as janitors. It is egalitarian. And therein lies its problem...
...Rather than making sure that the uninsured have a sufficient amount of choice, a single-payer system often forces everyone to have the same choice, which has an insidious flipside. In Canada this meant that no one could sacrifice more to obtain better or more prompt treatment. It was only in 2005 that the Canadian Supreme court struck down a Quebec law forbidding private insurance for medically necessary operations, claiming that it violated the defendant’s right to person...