Democrats are Pansies

[allegrox]

As with most political issues, this is best explained with cows. Unfortunately not everyone can have two cows.

Private health care: You have no cows (unless you have almost all of them). In order to get enough milk you have to persuade the corporation that guards all the cows that you are not a milk thief. You have to pay them tribute in order to

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[allegrox]

Well, that is the understanding that a lot of people have of socialized health care, but if you ask people in any of the countries that already have it (as I have done) they will tell you otherwise. They don't have to wait for days, and it is at least as easy to get healthcare under a socialized system as it is under our private system, and probably easier. An insurance company is legally required to do all it can to prevent your getting care because not handing out money is in the interest of the share holders. At least Obama's plan wouldn't have that situation because there would be no share holders. But otherwise it is exactly like regular health insurance.

Interestingly health insurance is already sort of socialized in that everyone pays in to cover everybody else. The difference is that this socialized system is run by private companies that skim a lot off the top. In a government-run system, the amount of money going in would ideally be exactly the same as the amount coming out, so it should be a lot cheaper.

Anyway, I don't think the case has ever been made that having socialized healthcare would mean getting rid of private insurance. There is no reason both couldn't exist alongside so that people concerned about the potential problems with socialized healthcare could still just do it the old way.