Universal Health Care

Firstly, I must apologize for dropping a round in this debate. I've been having some time management issues lately, especially now that I'm at school and working again full time. The first thing I must emphasis is that my opponent is still using the 'only western industrialized nation' argument. This argument is entirely irrelevant and invalid as per the rules of logic. Argument from popularity. This argument is inherently fallacious. A policy being more popular than others means absolutely nothing whatsoever. The largest fallacy with your argument is that you consider our current system to be a "Free market" system. This is simply not true, the system we have right now is not at all free market, rather it's heavily regulated and controlled. Over the years, it has gone to the point where insurance companies are government propped up monopolies. These monopolies might not be much better, and in some cases they can be even worse than socialized systems. When I speak of a free market system I do not speak of a pseudo-free American system, I speak of a true free market. A truly free market would rely on insurance far less, and paying for the goods far more. Just as with food, and other essential things people might end up spending alot of money. My family spent about 100 dollars a week, at the least on food. This seems like quite a lot, that could be 5200 a year! Should the government step in and take control over the food industry? Well, you might think so if the food industry was run like the medical industry is run in America today. You would go into the grocery store with your "FOODCORP" card, buy hundreds of dollars worth of steak, eat in excess, your food would be far less quality and it would "cost" alot, especially if you didn't have an 'insurance' card. One solution might to be to radically socialize the food system, sure this would be incredibly inefficient as most socialized systems are, but it would be cheaper for the individual..... This would be problematic though, as simply moving to the free market, the system we resemeble now so far as food goes, would not only solve most problems regarding cost (for the vast majority of individuals) but it would also prevent all of the inefficiencies caused by socialism. Freedom of choice exists only in a free market system, and that is what makes a free market system so much more productive than a socialized one. YOu may choose which hospital to go to, and how much money to spend. This competition naturally brings prices down, while socialism naturally makes prices sporadic, as bureaucrats are far less efficient at determining prices than the market. Americans do wait some time in ER's. Americans complaining about wait times should visit a hospital ran by the NHS, or other socialist systems. Often, people will have serious medical conditions and die waiting in the waiting rooms. Even for cancer care, the time it takes to actually even get in for an MRI is enough to kill the patient. Socializing the system, even if it would be cost effective is unacceptable. Doing so, would require the slavery of everybody to somebody else. While you claim health service is a "Human right", to say that it must be a human right is to say that slavery is a "human right". The only true human right is one that which does not require the labor of others to achieve, otherwise one person is a slave to another. My opponent has not brought up any rebuttal to my earlier point on how this is slavery, so I must assume that he is at least, in part, in favor of slavery. Is slavery of one man to another really a human right? All people who pay for other peoples care are effectively slaves. Socialism is hardly ever acceptable, however at times it is a necessary evil. I would say that it is required to some extent, for the courts, fire, and police services. I would not say that education should be public. If we implemented this socialist policy, even if it saved us money, we would all lose out in the long run. We would lose out with our freedom, and with the efficiencies that capitalism provides.