Why does anyone that disagrees with you not think that healthcare is a right?
If you think healthcare is a right, you want everyone to have fair and adequate healthcare, right? So as long as the proposed system achieves that goal, it doesn't matter, right? We both want the same thing.
You really don't need to dilute the argument with statements like these. Let's focus on the policies, and the results of these policies in practice, okay? It's important to look at what the policies are actually doing, and not what they are "intended" to do.
First is the issue of socialized healthcare. Healthcare is by nature NOT socializable. Literally everyone has different needs. It's not like police/fire department where everyone receives the same treatment. If you pay for everyone's healthcare equally, then the ones that need/want less suffer. Now, if we had an entirely socialized economic system, where the inequalities in a socialized healthcare system would balance themselves out in other areas of the economy, then sure, it could MAYBE all work out well and balanced, if it were very well designed and executed. This is not the case at all in America.
Next is exactly the problem you are describing. There is no competition when the government gives such huge benefits to organizations that provide general healthcare to their employees like that. The fact that there is no competition is exactly why this dumb little issue is even a big deal right now. If Sony announced that all their future TVs will now be in black & white, no one would give a ****, because there are tons of other TVs they could get to satisfy their needs.
But no, instead of spending our time on broader issues, we have to sit around and go over tiny details in policies like this for WEEKS at a time. It really does not make any sense.
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