Comments on: Myth 30. Healthcare reform is not “socialized medicine.” http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/00749 from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:47:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Blair Christensen http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/00749#comment-4841 Blair Christensen Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:49:09 +0000 http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/?p=749#comment-4841 To Mudwall: You make the mistaken assumption that healthcare is a right. It is not. You also take away the opportunity for people to assist with healthcare through charity and instead impose mandatory income distribution to pay for it. Also, you should more closely examine the reason the system is "broken". If you do so honestly, you will find that it is government interference that is the root cause: 1. ENDA imposing higher administrative fees on doctors for "compliance" 2. Failure to pass medical malpractice reform 3. Emergency rooms that are mandated to treat anyone who walks in regardless of ability to pay, citizenship status 4. Emergency rooms that can not refer patients to outpatient care for non-life-threatening situations, ie non-emergencies 5. Government law prohibiting nationwide competition for insurance. Government is the main cause of higher medical costs, and now we are supposed to accept a takeover of the system by the very people who are causing the problem in the first place? I don't think so. To Mudwall:

You make the mistaken assumption that healthcare is a right. It is not. You also take away the opportunity for people to assist with healthcare through charity and instead impose mandatory income distribution to pay for it. Also, you should more closely examine the reason the system is “broken”. If you do so honestly, you will find that it is government interference that is the root cause:
1. ENDA imposing higher administrative fees on doctors for “compliance”
2. Failure to pass medical malpractice reform
3. Emergency rooms that are mandated to treat anyone who walks in regardless of ability to pay, citizenship status
4. Emergency rooms that can not refer patients to outpatient care for non-life-threatening situations, ie non-emergencies
5. Government law prohibiting nationwide competition for insurance.

Government is the main cause of higher medical costs, and now we are supposed to accept a takeover of the system by the very people who are causing the problem in the first place? I don’t think so.

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