Concept of universal health care relic from Communism
Aaron Sakulich
Issue date: 5/14/04 Section: Ed-Op
Universal health care is so riddled with problems, both in the fundamental theory behind it and in its practical application, that it is absolutely unsuitable for any sort of wide-scale, real-world applications. Cuba has universal health care; one cannot buy things like aspirin or laxatives anywhere on the island. Canada has taken a good swing at universal health care, and while basic services such as setting of bones and buying drugs are excellent, more advanced services such as organ transplants and chemotherapy can take years to come through. If you need an organ, waiting several years is generally difficult at best. Every Canadian I've ever met who has had a loved one fall seriously ill has nothing but bad words for their system of medicine. These countries have had decades to get universal health care to work; it isn't going to happen.
Our health care system is surely not perfect, but this insane, naïve plan to ignore everything we know about human nature is no solution. After a year with universal health care, there will be such a rush on hospitals and courtrooms that our legal system will be paralyzed and the tax rate will be 100 percent. It will be nothing short of communism.
It all boils down to the fact that universal health care will take the tax dollars of the people and put them to uses, such as abortion, that those people disagree with on some deep philosophical or religious level. Even ignoring this fatal flaw, in a country where choosing to smoke, people driving like jerks and hamburger-related heart diseases send more people to the hospital than all other causes added together and multiplied by a hundred, it is absolutely and unquestionably wrong to punish the innocent for the irresponsibility of the guilty. If this were a system of "take from the rich, give to the poor," it might have some merit to it, but a system of "rob from everyone and give to the irresponsible, the hypochondriac and the ignorant, and if we have some left over, to the poor" is obviously fundamentally and fatally flawed.
Aaron Sakulich is a junior majoring in materials engineering.
Our health care system is surely not perfect, but this insane, naïve plan to ignore everything we know about human nature is no solution. After a year with universal health care, there will be such a rush on hospitals and courtrooms that our legal system will be paralyzed and the tax rate will be 100 percent. It will be nothing short of communism.
It all boils down to the fact that universal health care will take the tax dollars of the people and put them to uses, such as abortion, that those people disagree with on some deep philosophical or religious level. Even ignoring this fatal flaw, in a country where choosing to smoke, people driving like jerks and hamburger-related heart diseases send more people to the hospital than all other causes added together and multiplied by a hundred, it is absolutely and unquestionably wrong to punish the innocent for the irresponsibility of the guilty. If this were a system of "take from the rich, give to the poor," it might have some merit to it, but a system of "rob from everyone and give to the irresponsible, the hypochondriac and the ignorant, and if we have some left over, to the poor" is obviously fundamentally and fatally flawed.
Aaron Sakulich is a junior majoring in materials engineering.
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Immanuel
posted 7/30/07 @ 7:27 PM EST
I totally agree with your arguments. I live in Canada. Healthcare plan does not cover neither for eye treatment nor dental care or dentistry; crucial needs so to speak. (Continued…)
Alexandria German
posted 11/12/07 @ 6:36 PM EST
Hi, my name is Alexandria German. You can call me Alex if you're too lazy to say my full name. Thank you very much. I am a freshman, and I attend Richwoods High School in Peoria, Illinois. (Continued…)
audrey mccloud
posted 11/12/07 @ 6:53 PM EST
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alexandria german
posted 11/12/07 @ 6:55 PM EST
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audrey mccloud =]
posted 11/12/07 @ 6:56 PM EST
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James
posted 11/30/07 @ 1:53 PM EST
If someone set their house on fire by careless or neglectful means, should their local fire department not respond? After all, tax dollars pay for emergency services such as fire fighters and other first responders. (Continued…)
jbesante
posted 11/30/07 @ 1:57 PM EST
If someone set their house on fire by careless or neglectful means, should their local fire department not respond? After all, tax dollars pay for emergency services such as fire fighters and other first responders. (Continued…)
Denise
posted 2/24/08 @ 6:44 PM EST
Tell me how men's penis' have nothing to do with abortions? I hope you never need someone's help.
Unemployment, sickness and death do not discriminate. (Continued…)
Benjamin
posted 9/18/09 @ 4:19 AM EST
I am totally with you on this one. In fact every other social program we have in this country should be eliminated as well. Why should MY tax dollars that I actually WORKED for go to a failing educational system? It is NOT a right for children to go to school, it's a privilege. (Continued…)
Marco
posted 10/10/09 @ 4:51 AM EST
Your view is completely wrong. If you have a health insurance, you also pay money into a big pot which is used to distribute the money among the members who need it. (Continued…)
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