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This is the Government that You Want to Run Health-care?

JEROME DA GNOME said:
You are looking at health-care in a vacuum. One must understand that government interference with markets and governmental printing and borrowing excess money distorts the economy and thus the markets.
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Your post assumes that markets can spontaneously arise and efficiently allocate resources without governments. That is not always correct.
 
acuity said:
Your post assumes that markets can spontaneously arise and efficiently allocate resources without governments. That is not always correct.
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Markets existed prior to government.

Allocation of resources by government has been shown by history to be both inefficient, unfair, and a detriment to the populous.
 
JEROME DA GNOME said:
Prior to 1948 the United Kingdom allowed it's people to die in the streets with-out health-care?
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As at 2002, the United States allows its citizens to die in the streets without healthcare.

"In 2002, 1,930 people between the ages of 25–34 died due to lack of insurance. From ages 35–44, there were 3,431 deaths due to lack of insurance, and from 45–54, there were 4,734. While a greater number of young people are uninsured, it appears that larger numbers of older adults without insurance may die because they lack it."

(http://www.dpeaflcio.org/programs/factsheets/fs_2007_health_care_system_intl_perspective.htm)

How would your free-for-all solve this?
 
acuity said:
They were acknowledged to be inadequate relative to society's wishes.
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No, they were stated by politicians to be inadequate for the purpose of creating a socialist power structure for the politicians to control. The populous fell for it.
 
volatile said:
As at 2002, the United States allows its citizens to die in the streets without healthcare.

"In 2002, 1,930 people between the ages of 25–34 died due to lack of insurance. From ages 35–44, there were 3,431 deaths due to lack of insurance, and from 45–54, there were 4,734. While a greater number of young people are uninsured, it appears that larger numbers of older adults without insurance may die because they lack it."

(http://www.dpeaflcio.org/programs/factsheets/fs_2007_health_care_system_intl_perspective.htm)

How would your free-for-all solve this?
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The statistics you are presenting can only be accessed through the purchase of the report here. Curious that a non-profit would require the purchase of it's research.

You are not going to just trust what is written on the internet without evidence, are you?
 
JEROME DA GNOME said:
The statistics you are presenting can only be accessed through the purchase of the report here. Curious that a non-profit would require the purchase of it's research.

You are not going to just trust what is written on the internet without evidence, are you?
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The USA Today - "More than 18,000 adults in the USA die each year because they are uninsured and can't get proper health care, researchers report in a landmark study released Tuesday."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/healthcare/2002-05-22-insurance-deaths.htm

Another group checked the IOM numbers and actually found THEY WERE UNDERESTIMATING. "As many as 27,000 Americans may have died in 2006 because they did not have health insurance, a new study estimates."

http://shapleigh.org/news/1509-thousands-of-u-s-deaths-attributed-to-lack-of-health-insurance

Got any evidence to the contrary, or are you just going to remain willfully ignorant?
 
volatile said:
The USA Today - "More than 18,000 adults in the USA die each year because they are uninsured and can't get proper health care, researchers report in a landmark study released Tuesday."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/healthcare/2002-05-22-insurance-deaths.htm

Another group checked the IOM numbers and actually found THEY WERE UNDERESTIMATING. "As many as 27,000 Americans may have died in 2006 because they did not have health insurance, a new study estimates."

http://shapleigh.org/news/1509-thousands-of-u-s-deaths-attributed-to-lack-of-health-insurance

Got any evidence to the contrary, or are you just going to remain willfully ignorant?
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Do you have any information outside of unsubstantiated reports?

Where are the studies?

You should read my sig for clarity.
 
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