
Originally Posted by
Flagg
Is he trying to say Health Care is not a right? :P
You have to remember, someone going through Medical School over in the UK will have to attend 4-7 years at University, and seeing as university fees are increasing from 10K to nearly 30K a year, Doctors graduating over here will still have a lot of debt to pay back.
And call me naive, but I thought the whole point of being a Doctor was to help people. If it's done for status, money...then I think those are pretty poor reasons to be one. Rights be damned, if someone is bleeding out, are they supposed to be ignored because no one knows if they have cover?
Great point..... people become doctors to help other people. Now lets just say the younger generation of "future doctors" see's that the ammount of money they can make from such services is limited. It's no longer up to them to charge what they want..... what incentive would these kids have to go on to medical school if their income could be limited? There will always be those people who become doctors because they feel it's their calling like TGF said...... but once you cap how much a service can cost..... it's going to have reprocussions.
You talk that Healthcare is a service, not a right...that's like saying, every time you call 911 and ask for other the police or the fire department, they could say "well, we'll come out to you, but have you got the green?" , im not sure how your police and fire departments work over there, but arent they also a service? Can you imagine if a police operator said to you on the phone "Ma'am, im sure your husband is chasing you round the house with a knife, but we're a service, not a right. Good day".
Funny you bring this up...... Over here we have both paid and "volunteer" firemen. I live in a town were we have a volunteer fire department. If the fire department needs more resources..... our taxes go up. We pay for their "services" either way.....
Just because I own a house and it catches fire doesn't mean ANYONE has to help me put it out. Why is it someone elses responsibility? I'm not saying we don't need fire departments because i'm glad we do but these services aren't god-given or born rights.
Regarding the police.... yes they are a service also. They are paid by the taxes taken out of my pay check. They are public servants and have a duty to do the job we citizens pay them for.
I'll make an analogy that fits my case better...... Look at private investigators. They aren't paid by taxes taken from the citizens but they can be especially useful in solving cases when the police have put the case into the cold case files. Should I contact him and ask him to look at my case and not charge me for his services because I'd really like to find my famillies killer? Should he perform his services for free just to be a "good person" when he also has a familly to feed? He offers a service that he is particularly good at..... even an expert one would say. He should be compensated for that expertise and not expected to perform it for free or for what I feel like paying him because I feel it's my "RIGHT" to know who killed my familly.
It's not my place to say how the American government should spend it's money, but don't you think you spend way, WAY too much money on Military defence, when that could be put towards improving Health Care instead?
I don't disagree.....
In the world we live in now, and the precarious financial situation of the U.S., surely people are not going to be in a position any more to pay for Privatised HealthCare any more?