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I need opinions on why healthcare should be privitized ASAP !!!!!!!!!!!! 10 points?
I need this for a school debate....:)
10 Answers
- Bradley245Lv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
Looks like you are on the losing side of the debate.
Here are a few arguments:
-If less people can afford health care, wait times will be lower.
-If you start generating profit from health care, costs will increase and quality will decrease.
- 10 years ago
Private companies tend to do a better job managing business because they must "do or die" meaning they have to succeed to make money. They cannot depend on government handouts. Also, an individual that runs a company well tend to be 'hands on." So, he/she makes sure the company does well. He/she has a vested interest. So, in this respect, a healthcare company that is private will be better managed than a government run healthcare company. Not all private companies do well because of competition or an owner that poorly manages. But government run businesses do worse because there is no one that cares when the government is paying the bills. Plus, private companies has less bureaucracy to deal with.
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- GOZ2FASTLv 710 years ago
1. People should be able to contract with their doctor directly for routine care and pay a price that is affordable...without insurance or government getting in the middle driving up the cost.
2. Government sucks at running everything....
3. Free market pricing and competition drives quality and fair pricing...a one size fits all government plan drives up cost and brings down quality.
We should have people pay out of their own pocket for routine care, whatever the market will bear ($30 per visit, or whatever). Then we should make catastrophic insurance for accident and long term illness mandatory, like we do for car ownership. We pay to fix our cars when they have minor break downs, but we pay insurance to cover huge stuff, we should do the same for human bodies...and let insurance companies compete against state lines.
Source(s): Ann, you are wrong...healthcare is not a RIGHT..it is a service that is bought and sold...until you are willing to spend 12 years of your life getting your medical license, $500,000 setting up your office and spend $500,000 a year on malpractice insurance and WORK FOR FREE OR NEXT TO NOTHING...it is not and never will be someones RIGHT to get that service for free. - How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
- ?Lv 610 years ago
You could argue that privatized medical care will improve the gene pool by weeding out the unfit and strengthen the economy by letting the poor die off. It will at least keep the conversation lively.
- Aegis of FreedomLv 710 years ago
1) Monopolies are bad for the consumer, that is why there are laws against them. A government monopoly on health care is no exception.
2) It is immoral and grossly unfair. Let's say that I eat right and exercise, and you eat junk food and sit on the couch all day. I will have far lower health care costs that you, but under a national or universal system, I will be forced to pay the same as you. This forces me to subsidize your poor decisions. I should only have to pay for my own health care choices, not yours.
- 10 years ago
It encourages competition, and this in turn improves the quality of care and services.
Our health care is NOT failing. The problems with PAYING for our health care and we can thank heavy regulation by multiple government agencies as well as the insurance lobby for that.
- Anonymous10 years ago
As far as privatized in the sense of a real, true, free market, we do not have that choice today. It''s either government run, or corporation run. Neither of which is the best option
- Ann KunisLv 510 years ago
Every man, woman and child has the right to medical care.
It's the moral thing to do for a fully developed country.
You don't get no private companies charging over the top prices for medical care.
You'll alway have the right to see a doctor or get medical care no matter how rich or poor you are.
- Dave87gnLv 710 years ago
It IS privatized now...and its failing because of that...the goal is not to help people or cure them, the goal is to make money and deny claims
Its a disaster