"Nobody with a brain would want the government deciding when they deserve to get medical treatment , and when they 're not sick enough to qualify ."
"And no country in the developed world has such a system . Take your strawman elsewhere . In any case , if such decisions are made I 'd rather have them made by democratically accountable government than private corporations . I live in a country with a very good , though not perfect , public healthcare system , and the system proposed in the US is not government run , by any stretch of the imagination . The government will not own the hospitals , employ the medical staff , pay for most of the medicine , that will all be done by private insurers and private hospitals still . My maybe vote therefore means I think the US system needs to be nationalised , it 's much more efficient to do that ."
"Nobody with a brain would want the government deciding when they deserve to get medical treatment , and when they 're not sick enough to qualify ."
"In any case , if such decisions are made I 'd rather have them made by democratically accountable government than private corporations . I live in a country with a very good , though not perfect , public healthcare system , and the system proposed in the US is not government run , by any stretch of the imagination . The government will not own the hospitals , employ the medical staff , pay for most of the medicine , that will all be done by private insurers and private hospitals still ."