Ok, small rant on the ACA, AHCA, and private healthcare/insurance... But first a video that's been making the rounds:
First off, Healthcare is a service, unlike this guy says. It is a good. It is provided by other people, therefore makes it a service that you're not entitled too, and therefore it shouldn't be free. You can't force someone to help you, they do it because it's their job and they get paid for it. It's how they make their living.
Also, one of the sympathizers to single-payer healthcare is "oh, I don't mind paying a little extra in taxes so that everyone can have healthcare". Wait, what was that? YOU don't mind paying a little extra. Doesn't that mean that you, along with all of the other people who want to pay extra can support private hospitals instead of forcing it out of every single hardworking American? If you would gladly support it, go for it, all power to you - but everyone shouldn't be forced to support it.
Okay, back to the fact that of healthcare is a service. If your house is burning down in the middle of the night, what happens? The fire department is woken up and rushes to your house {presumably} as fast as they can to save it. If you break a rib in a car accident in the middle of the night, and you're rushed to the hospital (by EMS, which is also a service, Emergency Medical 'Service') in the middle of the night, the doctor, nurses, and hospital staff will do the best they can to serve you and try to fix the problem. Yes I said it that way - serve you. It's a service.
This next point, probably the biggest down fall of a government-owned healthcare system, or singly owned monopoly for that reason, is if you are the only Healthcare provider in the entire country, you can set your rates at whatever you want. You have no competition, you have no other options. There is no competitive market force for you to increase the quality of your service or reduce it's costs. There is no market force to increase your efficiencies or increase your use of technology to better solve problems.
President Obama's Affordable Care Act mandated that everyone get health insurance. You shouldn't be forced into buying anything. The primary reason is failed was that it was going to force droves of young, healthy people to buy a product that they'd likely never use in order to subsidize older heavy-use citizens. When those young citizens opted for the penalty, the system collapses.
This is what makes socialism and communism so horribly disgusting economically- sure it sounds great on paper that while government or people control everything ("the means of production") they will have the lowest prices and make it affordable to everyone. But it will never, ever work that way.
[Common Commie argument]: "But muh communism wasn't real communism and that's why it's never worked".
[Common Socialist argument]: "But muh socialism wasn't real socialism and that's why it's never worked".
Wrong. You can't make everything free - nothing is free. You can't make everyone have the same pay check, or everyone would eventually put forth the lowest effort in their jobs which still makes as much as the top brain surgeon would. What would keep the brain surgeons from emigrating out and going where their service is more appropriately valued? Notice all the 'brain drain' which has occurred in Venezuela? After government instantiated price ceilings and static wages, black markets formed and the country hemorrhaged entrepreneurs and professionals.
This is how countries fall apart under communistic, socialistic and totalitarian societies - because communism never worked, isn't working, and never will work (this is also why Pinochet threw them from helicopters but that's a different story for a different day).
Anyways, with private sectors, you have options. Don't like the rates of Provider A? Switch to Provider B - for equal coverage and lower premiums.
That's called capitalism, that's a called a free market, and that's how America should operate. Of the people, by the people, and for the people, is not forcing insurance down everyone's throats and making everyone pay for it.
Thanks for taking time to read this. As always, comment down below for an open debate, and stay free.
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