One thing that no one ever seems to mention in their arguments about universal health care provided by the government is what the trade-offs will be. Honestly, as much as politicos would like you to believe that government can provide you with everything, cradle-to-grave, the truth is that even government is subject to the realities of cost at some point. If government provided every imaginable medical service on-demand for every American regardless of cost, the system would collapse within a year.
Having established that "all-everything, all-the-time, cost-is-no-object" is out of the question, a legitimate follow-up question is, "Where do you draw the line?" It's easy under the current "system"; your health insurance has established limits for various services. Once you've hit your limit, or come across a treatment not supported by your insurance, you reach into your own pocket to pay.
In the real world of socialized medicine, this it how it plays out.
State officials have offered a lung cancer patient the option of having the Oregon Health Plan, set up in 1994 to ration health care, pay for an assisted suicide but not for the chemotherapy prescribed by her physician.UFB! Un-freakin-believable!
But, you go right ahead and push for government health care, you sheeple, you lemmings. By the time you need YOUR cancer treatment, the suicide option might not be voluntary.
