National Health Care

First off, I would like to say that you just proved my point with the choice of doctor argument. Some people are able to in this country, others are not. In countries with universal health care you are aloud to choose your doctor. Secondly, I want to congratulate my opponent on his superb math skills. There is only one problem with that, hmmm I know... IT MIGHT JUST BE THE FACT THAT THERE ARE 301,139,947 U.S. CITIZENS, https://www.cia.gov... NOT 3,000,000,000, (nice one genius). Next time you want to put out a mathematical equation for an argument, you probably shouldn't try to slip an extra zero in there. Another point about taxes is that we pay higher taxes than many countries who have universal health care do. This is for two main reasons, the first is that they don't end up paying for what happens down the line if a patient needs to be treated and is not. The other reason is that our priorities as a nation are totally out of wack, yeah I'm talking about Iraq, with the cost of that war we could have universal health care over for many years (we should try to help people, not kill them). What makes you think that doctors would just jump to people to help them if they didn't have a legitimate injury. If someone is in serious need of help they will be treated immediately. People who have a "jammed finger" will have to wait for help until after people who have more serious problems. This will ensure that people seek help only when they need it. Here are the rebuttals to the rest of your so called arguments; 1) This country does not have many free clinics at all. The free clinics we do have do not give any sort of extensive treatment whatsoever. They will do nothing for people who have serious conditions like cancer. Let me tell you a little story, there is this doctor I know who was going door to door campaigning for his run at public office. He stopped at this house and once the man inside found out he was a doctor he brought out his friend, who had an absolutely immense tumor on his face. There was nothing anyone could do for him at that point, he died not long after. My point is this, this guy along with many others needed immediate care, free clinics just doesn't cut it, stuff like this happens way to often in this country. 18,000 people die every year in the U.S. simply because they have no health insurance. 2)So much money in the American health care system goes straight into the pockets of the CEOs of health insurance companies. You can't possibly tell me that people pay have to pay more fees extra in other systems. Insurance companies will drop coverage to people all the time and they have to pay BIG. This doesn't include the 47 million of us who do not even have heath care, they have to pay the most! 3)And don't worry about our dear friends at the insurance companies. They will be able to get skilled work as a doctor or a nurse. This will be much better than the semi-skilled job of denying health insurance to people. Oh... and one more thing, there is a lot of thing provided by the government. So if universal heath care is "Communist" than roads, schools, prisons, police stations, fire stations, libraries, and the military are all Communist. Damn, i'm scared there are dirty commies everywhere.