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| Jump to Survey | > If people can't buy extra medical care, then everyone has roughly
> the same access to care
Exactly. The only way to get equality is to bring the top down. If you do this, then the result is that those more expensive medical treatments never get developed. If they don't exist, then they can't get refined and brought down in price. In a few years, the available medical technology is substantially behind where it would have been without the intervention. People die because the medical care that could help them simply does not exist.
I don't think the medical technology that's available today is so good that we should stop advancing here. I want better -- much, much better. | | Jump to Survey | If the public option is optional then it's not what I understand single payer to be. My understanding of those terms is that "single payer" means the government essentially takes over health care, or at least paying for health care. There is no other option. On the other hand, "public option" is essentially a government run health insurance program that "competes" with all the other options people have for health insurance (including not having insurance though I understand some of the proposals make that illegal too). I put "competes" in quotes because some of the proposals I've heard have the public option paid for out of tax revenues which would be nearly impossible to compete against while others say that it would be not take tax revenues which probably wouldn't work.
As for the public option or single payer giving people with no money access to the same medical care as people who can afford to pay for it themselves, you're dreaming. The only possible way that will ever happen is by limiting the medical care available to the rich. I'm not sure it's possible even then and I'm positive that it's not desirable. Dragging down the top so everyone is the same is not beneficial to anyone. | | Jump to Survey | If you had yes/no options, I'd be able to choose one of those. |
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