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Universal Health Care

First off on the bread and circuses point....... um what? case in point? you have given no warrants for how they are doing nothing, you do bring up the NHS waiting times in the UK but let's take a look at your conclusion drawn from it.... you say this is all because of no competition between hospitals or insurance companies but this is wrong..... The real problem with the NHS waiting times is an influx in patients where the infrastructure of the health care system isn't built in a way to handle it, so it slows down.. Let's look at Japan who also has a universal health care system yet is able to keep waiting times down.... why is this? it's because they have the infrastructure to support it......... (Also life saving surgeries don't go through the NHS in the UK which means that they wouldn't be waiting) On your second point you say that if there was less interference then private companies would compete more...... if this was true then we would've had the best health care system in the world for the last 40 years..... however we see through US history that this isn't the case as the World Health Organization has ranked us as 37th..... Your other point about free health care not actually being free is correct in the that instance however when you say that the average man would have to pay insanely high taxes , this isn't true... Let us remember that when you have the govt involved as the middle man they are able to negotiate the prices lower so it is more affordable...... ALSO you have not attacked my point when I was talking about Health care being an inelastic demand, this means that companies can raise their prices and people still need the insurance just as much and so they are forced to buy it anyways. the WHO ranking is based on first off the quality of our care, which we ranked 15, and secondly how much it cost which we came in 1st place, as in our health care costs the absolute most.... this gave us an overall ranking of 37..... if you want to call it biased then that's your choice but these are the 2 issues here, that I have stated over and over, it costs too much, and it lacks quality. You have stated that if we left the companies alone then we would see better quality and lower prices... this hasn't been the case when we did leave them alone so we know that that isn't true... There has still been no argument against mine that universal HC should be a right There has been no argument against mine that universal HC saves money.