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let it be resolved that universal health care is a bad idea

Having a market in health care doesn't mean that the poor wouldn't get care. We have a market in housing and a market in food, yet the poor don't starve or go homeless. Of course there are SOME people who are homeless but this isn't due to the market but due to government intervention in the market. Low cost housing is forbidden due to regulations ensuring all housing must be of a certain quality. In a market, the government will try to ensure all health care is a certain quality as well, making it more expensive. However, universal health care still has the same quality, but will be cheaper as the taxes pay for it and subsidize for it. 2. "Doctors will seek cheaper charges, the government won't." Your opinion is not the government's opinion. Your opinion is ot the doctor's opinion. You cannot know what they would do unless you have a psychic power or it is obvious, which isn't true in this case. 3.Further what you have with socialized medicine is a government monospony. All health care services - with a few exceptions - are bought by the government. This means that no doctor needs to compete with lower costs. The end user isn't going to decide where to go based on how much it costs the government and so there is absolutely no incentive for the doctors to charge less than the absolute maximum. But eventually all of this needs to be paid for by taxpayers. Again, you do not know what they will do, you are not them. 4. You know what politicians in Canada do when they get sick? They hop on the first plane to the states because their wealth, stolen from the Canadian public, enables them to get the first class medical treatment they have made it illegal to provide here. Illegal. Yes, Canada is one of the only countries, along with Cuba and North Korea, that has made it a criminal for a doctor to sell their services to the consumer. That's right - we live in a country where a prostitute can legally sell his / her body, but a doctor is criminally liable if they sell their medical services. It's a messed up world we live in. Privatize everything! Private market health care is allowed in Canada. In fact, they have private health care companies that have their own web pages![1] Again, you are basing your arguments on false assumptions. Here is an argument based on the same fallacies as the ones you made: "You know what those private health care people do? They rip you off with high prices and then if you not buy their products they shoot you in your head and then they would send a biological weapon into the city so that people get sick and they get money. If you don't buy their health care they will force you to buy it so that they get money! Public health care is not allowed in Minecraftia and they have those big companies charging too much emeralds everywhere! Make health care public!" See how your argument fails because you do not put sources to confdirm their validity? [1]http://novartis.ca...