Just been dealing with the pharmacy and our health insurance

[xiphias]

Can anyone give me an example of ANY problem that we'd have with socialized medicine that we don't have right now with our current health care system?

I mean, if I'm going to have to go through byzantine, bizzare, arbitrary bureaucracy and have to bang my head against walls and argue with people to have simple, commonsense health care taken care of, I'd like to at least know that it was available to everyone.

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[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Because you want to ensure a minimum standard of health care for everybody in the society.

Now, what that minimum standard IS is, properly, subject to a great deal of debate and discussion. But the argument is that a society has a moral obligation to make sure that every member of its society has a reasonable chance to live a healthy, productive life.

[warren8472.livejournal.com]

And this hinges on the argument over what constitutes "making sure" and "reasonable chance", i.e., is giving everyone equal protection and an equal opportunity to succeed under the law enough, or do we go all Robin Hood and give services away, hoping people won't abuse it?

I'm not a big fan of legislating morality; some people's self-described moral obligation to do what's best for society is what gives us legislative gems like anti-flag-burning laws and the Defense of Marriage Act.