As I said, suppose I want to buy
private health care. If I have health care from a private health care company then I'm covered in any of those scenarios you listed. If I'm paying for private health care, I should not be forced to pay for public health care that I do not use.[quote}
Pssst -- you already do. The US government spends twice what any other countries spend on their
entire healthcare systems -
in taxes alone!
I agree that the government could do it. But, in order for me to place my trust in the government, it would have to have a serious reform of its policies and methods.
Agreed. the various agencies are often underfunded in serious disrepair, but I don't think it would be any great trick to give them adequate funding and replace political appointees with competent managers.
( Remember how well FEMA handled hurricanes before the republicans cut its funds and headed it with a horse-show organizer)?
Also, while I don't work for the federal government, I am involved with government on a State/county/city level and I can tell you that incompetence is not just right wing propaganda. Of course, I don't think it has so much to with government as it does the fact that many Americans are incompetent thinkers.
I can't entirely disagree, having worked in an OSHA office at one time, (though I doubt a private, for profit agency would have done any better); and when does a week go by that some police outrage doesn't make it into the papers?
Nothing's perfect. The best we can do is remove any profit motive and institute careful monitoring and oversight.