First, I am not a "right-winger". Heck, I am not a collectivist, I do not stoop to such a moronic level to judge individuals in groups and with labels. I am about the facts. The fact is the market is and always will be more powerful than the government. The market is the people, it is swayed and determined by the people without legislation. The healthcare market is manipulated to the ends, and has been far from being a free market for many generations.
The bottom line is, that I will not pay federal taxes to fund another person's mistakes. I do not expect the same in return. It is an act of aggression to take my hard earned money, and give it to someone else. I can give my money away as I please, and I am very generous to my friends and family. But I work for myself, my interests, not someone else's interests. But the good news here, is that a universal healthcare system is far inferior to that of a free market. I would find it to be a worthy compromise if universal healthcare was in fact, better. Yet, where do the advancements and innovations occur? Not in a centrally planned, equally bad, manipulated book-kept healthcare system. It is best where every individual has the most incentive to take care of their health and act responsibly. To expect the quality of healthcare to go up, just because of legislation, is asinine. You still have the same doctors, you still have the same equipment and medicine, except now, the incentive for the Doctors to do a good job is manipulated by putting fear into them, and the incentive for the patient to be wreckless escalates, because they do not recognize the cost. Nothing is free, the money comes from somewhere.
Instead of taking steps forward, we are heading backwards. We ignore history, the destruction of money, the destruction of cultures because of unitary quasi-monarchical central planning that has oppressed it's people for the sake of the system. If you want central planning, that is fine, just make sure everyone agrees, and leave yourself some room to get out. Me, personally, I reject these draconian concepts that people are stupid, and must be planned for. I'm far too old for this nonsense, I want to live some of my life, actually moving forward, with my freedoms and liberties to take care of myself, as well as have a market around me that suits my needs, and not the minimum needs presented by some small group in a sacred building.
And yes, we need to sort through this mess. The regulations that favor the big pharmaceutical companies help them, and hurt us. The big business in bed with our politicians manipulate everything that occurs. Do you think those politicians care any more for you, than some crooked CEO of big-business. NO! They are the same. They aren't passing a universal healthcare system in the United States, it's an insurance mandate. They measure "access" by determining how many americans are covered by private and public insurance. That is how you raise the cost of healthcare, it is fact, not ideological, it is not one school of economics versus another, it is a fact of economics. Once you raise the value afforded, you raise the cost. It is in direct conflict with the laws of supply and demand. It is also very immoral to be thinking of a system that works only in some utopia, or a different nation that follows a different pie-complex structure completely. Once you ignore the pie-complex structure, another undeniable economic law, you essentially destroy the creation of wealth, and merely rely on wealth distribution and inflation. Right now, we slice far too much from our pie, we can not slice any more. It is physically impossible. You can make magical laws to do it, but the market itself adjusts, and that will cause a negative impact on far more people, than it will benefit, leaving the richest to benefit first, and the poorest to die. Therefore politicians want to destroy us, because more is left for them, more is left for the elite. They do not want us to embrace an open consumerism within the healthcare market. And some of you call me brainwashed? Understand pie-complex structures, do the math, understand where inflation originates. Those are not left-right positions, those are undeniable economic laws, never to be invalidated, and only purposely ignored for their completely predictable reactions that cause destructions to the middle and lower class. If you chose to ignore pie-complex structure, then nothing can help you.