I'd be willing to accept some sort of health plan offered to working people so they can afford the exhorbinant prices charged by doctors and staff.
However, it should not be free. People should have to pay for some of their health care. Be it in the form of insurance premium, etc.
It should not be free for those who do not work. Doctors are somewhat a luxury item based on how much they charge. It's a shame it is so expensive, however, that's reality. Something that expensive shouldn't be free for everyone. You should have to work and pay for it.
Example, I had a colonoscopy last month. The procedure lasted 20 minutes and I was in the recovery room a total of one hour (this includes the 20 minutes prep time before the testing). All the doctor did was put a long tube up my rectum. This wasn't brain surgery.
You know how much this cost........? It cost $2,500.00!! Sorry, this is too expensive (and these exhorbinant costs exist throughout the medical industry) to just make it free for everyone. When something costs that much, people must pay for some of it. It's become a luxury item for all intents and purposes.
Well, I guess doctors have always been a "luxury" item if you think about it. Why? Because they are very expensive. You, as I said, should have to pay for some of this very expensive type of "item" IMHO.
Justme: Whoever said -
"One final thing, and I forget which economist put forth the idea back in the mid 1980s, but people are least willing to pay for things they think are neccessities. Things like food, water, shelter and medical care are the things people feel are so neccessary that everyone should have them whether they can afford to pay or not." - must have been asking the most selfish, unproductive, lazy people I've ever imagined. No one I know would EVER say that. It, sadly, reeks of communism.
I mean, come on, food, water, housing and medical care should all be free. What kind of utopian gibberish is that??!! I'm totally baffled by the selfishness of ANYONE who would adhere to such a ridiculous, self aggrandizing, value system. I mean, WTF would anyone work for if all that was free!!??
Where did you read that? Was it an old survey done in Stalinist Russia?