Health Care Debate: For the 72% of Americans who support government run health care

same video, better audio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zGxTixx5QQ

The U.S. may be heading towards government run health care. The American Classic Liberal presents arguments against Obama's Public Health Care Option, which will inevitably lead to a single payer health care system.

We welcome all comments for or against this position. If you are for government run heath care, then please argue with reason and not emotion. That is, you should back up your claims with facts.

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[northduc]

The music track is painful.

[shimanopower]

Point taken. We might change the music and repost the video.

[chaliceguard]

please remove the background music -- it's unpleasant and distracting. I'd really like to watch -- seems well crafted otherwise.

[MsZeitgeist85]

NO other country uses our model because it does not work.

There is no such thing as a "Free Market" solution for health care and there never will be.

[zalzankavol2]

Read the study called "The Cost of Wait Times" in Canadian health care. It is a canadian self-study. On one procedure alone, out of thousands, they use some formulas to determine that about 17 billion dollars are lost due to workers having to wait. The conclusion? As long as workers are not allowed to move ahead of the elderly and children, the Canadian economy will lose hundreds of billions per year. The natural end of a marxist system is the devaluing of the non productive person.

[zalzankavol2]

@dirthead87 This is a lie. If I lived in Canada, I would lose about 25% or more of my income to your fedreal and provincial taxes. You Canadians are being raped financially and you are too stupid to see it. In hard numbers, I would lose about $7000-10,000 in income by moving to Canada at my salary.

[AndroidPolitician]

"Attention majority of the American population: what you want is wrong"

Also lol, not a single state has single-payer (vetoed twice in California though) and if we did, it would significantly reduce healthcare costs (see: Canada, Austrialia, France etc.) 

[selenadelos]

@shimanopower : Do away with hungry poor children for a small increase in taxes, yes I like it sign me up. Maybe cut some off the bombs budget and avoid killing some brown people for a few years should help a lot in cutting the cost .

[shimanopower]

Cute. But that's not what I meant.

[shimanopower]

85% of American have health insurance. Medicaid covers poor people; medicare covers old people; and SCHIP covers children. 50% of all health care expenses are already paid for by the the the government. What it costs your imaginary individual, I have no idea. I do know that the child, regardless of ability to pay, will receive high quality care. In the US, hospitals, by law, must treat individuals regardless of ability to pay. Your fringe example, appealing to emotion, doesn't justify socialism.