Reply #34: Because that leads to health care shortages and government rationing [View All]

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1159506/Life-prolonging-cancer-drugs-banned-cost-much.html

While the need for health care for the underprivileged needs to be addressed, I have to concede that in places where universal health care has been put in place it ultimately leads to lower quality of care.

I think that 'progressives' are generally on the wrong side on this issue. Please check out the link above to read about two cancer drugs that will no longer be used in the UK because the government cannot afford it. The decisions about health care have been taken away from the individual and are now in the hands of the state. I don't want that for my wife who has diabetes. (she has had it from childhood) If she were to ever need an organ transplant I would not want her to be denied based on limited resources and her pre-existing condition.

So many of the questions posted in this forum reveal a real lack of understanding about problems that have come up in socieities that have tried this. As painful as it may be you may have to submit your eyes, ears, and brains to some of the criticisms levied by the other side of the aisle about problems w/ universal health care.