Mike C got it right. An idea for a general theme for your side of the debate is that anything government can do, private industry can do better. Your opponents will probably talk about how wonderful socialized medicine is in places like Canada. Nonsense. Canadians wait inordinate amounts of time for healthcare, and those that can afford it sneak across the border to get better care in the States. Europeans have some of the same problems, and pay ridiculous tax rates for what they get.
It would be nice to have government funded healthcare, but it would cost a lot of money. Taxes would have to increase. Many Americans do not take care of themselves either. Why would you want to pay for someones healthcare because they chose to smoke or drink too much? Also a lot of people are overweight and that is also unhealthy. There would also be longer lines at clinics if everyone can see the doctor for free.
There are plenty of good reasons NOT to have gov't health care
1) Health care will cost too much of the Federal bodget, increasing deficeits and national debt
2) too many people will abuse the system tying up resources for other people who are truly sick (hypochondriacs!)
3) If price controls are forced on the medical proffessions, people will just leave the public sector, only the good doctors/nurses will be available to those with private insurnace or $$$
4) There will less incentive for the medical field to develop new technologies, there wil be less or none , payoff
5) there is already a shortage of medical proffisionals and facilties, gov't funded health care WILL NOT fill the shortatge, docotrs/nurses/phramacists don't want to be bossed around by the gov't
6) we already have gov't paid healthcare, its called MEDICARE/MEDICAID. people only quailify if there are US citizens and they have already spent all their own money
7) illegal citizens will load up the system, taking away roon from tax paying legal citizens
thre are more but that will get you started
1st- There are 40million + Americans with no health care whatsoever. Most civilized nations have it. As to cost, stop attacking soverign nations and cut back on some of your unnecessary space probes, granted knowing that Pluto has made a major impact on the lives of some poor Americans who can't afford to take their child to see a doctor. With all your middle income jobs being shipped of to China, there goes your major tax base.And a definate increase to your working poor.
Personnally I've never had to wait more than 1/2 hr. to 45 min. There were problems just after it started The new toy syndrome. people were flooding the system with every ache or pain. The neurotics had a ball. It didn't take long to change it to a triage system. If you were to emerency, twice that week, you may have to wait unless you were supposed to come back. I had an occasion to take a friend, who we thought was having a heart attack. We went to the desk, the nurse asked him what was wrong and when he told her, she told him not to move, called an orderly with a wheelchair and had him hooked up to an EKG before she even asked his name. Fortunately it was only an angina attack. There are waiting periods for things like hip replacements & some types of elective procedures. Because the med training in Canada is so well respected we loose a lot of doctors to the US. They must be the hacks buddy was talking about.
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