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I thought Beck was actually pretty good in this. Kathy obviously didn’t have a clue what she was talking about. I frequently hear people in favor of national health care point to France, which apparently has, or had, a pretty good system, but from what I undertand, France’s system is going broke, and is looking at major cutbacks in care, or more increases in taxes. IMO, any system which provides “free” health care is going to go broke, because there is no incentive for people to not go to the doctor. Heck, if it’s free, why not go everytime you get the sniffles? It encourages overconsumption. There has to be some cost to the patient, imo, so that people don’t overuse the system. Of course, that’s just one issue with public health care, there are many others. Doctors in France make about 1/3 of what doctors in the US make, not sure how well that would go over here.
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I thought Beck was actually pretty good in this. Kathy obviously didn’t have a clue what she was talking about. I frequently hear people in favor of national health care point to France, which apparently has, or had, a pretty good system, but from what I undertand, France’s system is going broke, and is looking at major cutbacks in care, or more increases in taxes. IMO, any system which provides “free” health care is going to go broke, because there is no incentive for people to not go to the doctor. Heck, if it’s free, why not go everytime you get the sniffles? It encourages overconsumption. There has to be some cost to the patient, imo, so that people don’t overuse the system. Of course, that’s just one issue with public health care, there are many others. Doctors in France make about 1/3 of what doctors in the US make, not sure how well that would go over here.
mbs on July 19, 2009 at 8:54 AM
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