PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum - View Single Post - Public Roads, Public Parks, and the Public Health Care Option

kerry · #5 08-25-2009, 11:22 AM

Let's focus on the free market option. Markets work because there are sellers and buyers. There's a free market for Rolls Royce's. But few people can afford them. Not many people think there is an injustice or a serious problem in people lacking the ability to buy a Rolls Royce. However, the cost of health care insurance is pushing it into the Rolls Royce realm with lots of people being unable to afford health insurance.
So, the free market is functioning. There is health insurance, it is being bought and sold but not to everyone. Is there a problem with this fact? I believe there is. We need people to work at relatively unskilled jobs at low wages. All of us use the labor of these people everyday in our lives. Is it fair that they lack the ability to see a doctor when they are sick, when wealthier people can easily do so? Since many medical conditions are issues of life and death, I think that since we know that there are systems available which are effective and efficient in providing health care to everyone, we should utilize them.
Of course there are other public health reasons why we want to make medical care available to everyone, especially in cases of infectious diseases, but for me the basic issue is whether a society which allows people to suffer or die as a result of treatable disease is a good one.