Let's examine the idea of "rationing" which MKLD and others use to demonize single payer systems that are used in other countries. The definition of rationing is to limit, control, restrict, put a ceiling on, etc. In our country where people cannot get covered for pre-existing conditions, they are forced into rationing their own medical care if they cannot afford treatments. My skin cancer is not covered by my insurance. Do I run to my dermatologist to get every suspicious spot checked out? NO. I cannot afford that. Do I run some risk, no doubt. If I had coverage I would not have that risk. That's the breaks. Too bad for me. Similarly, those without medical/dental insurance who cannot afford care are forced to limit treatment or do without.
My brother, a blue collar worker, could not afford to hire a dentist to repair his broken molar and so, with all the pain, he decided his best course of treatment was to remove the molar himself using alchohol as his anesthetic, just like back in the old days of the last century! That's where we are headed with our current Darwinian system.
Those who rail against the single payer health insurance system because they think it will "ration" health care are, IMHO, only thinking about themselves and are inhumanely disregarding a huge portion of Americans who are suffering under the current system.
My brother, a blue collar worker, could not afford to hire a dentist to repair his broken molar and so, with all the pain, he decided his best course of treatment was to remove the molar himself using alchohol as his anesthetic, just like back in the old days of the last century! That's where we are headed with our current Darwinian system.
Those who rail against the single payer health insurance system because they think it will "ration" health care are, IMHO, only thinking about themselves and are inhumanely disregarding a huge portion of Americans who are suffering under the current system.