Friday, December 10, 2010

What are the main arguments against the universal (single payer) health insurance in the US?

Can somebody lay out the main arguments against the universal (single-payer) health insurance in the United States? I am looking for comprehensive arguments based on facts, not ideological or philosophical ones. Thank you.
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Factually people prefer philosophical rhetoric usually spewed by a near-sighted or narrow minded propagandist. For any American to walk into a clinic and receive free medical care because the government has nationalized health care, is such a paradigm shift that it cannot easily be passed. Also the government is such a bureaucratic backwater mire that government agencies often fail to reach full potential and in fact become top-heavy, money-sucking failures. Why the hell did cost of stamps rise so sharply but the freaking machine is usually broke? Why are politicians designing a health care plan instead of doctors, nurses and hospital administrators telling Congress how insurance companies are lowering standard of health care and raising cost?
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