A National Health Care System should not be passed through Congress.

I would also like to tell my opponent I am male- obviously there was a little confusion. (Don't worry, I'm not offended. ) I'm also sorry for taking so long to reply. I will first defend my own contentions. #1 A)"In her contention, she never states why a national health care system would be unjust. " In my contention, I said that the forcing of an individual to buy health care was unjust. This is unjust because although statistics show that 41 million Americans do not have health care, there is no evidence to show that they actually want it. People can get along without it, as I have shown, with a savings account or other emergency planning with no loss to themselves. There may be no reason to need health care, and forcing it upon someone who doesn't need it is unjust. B) The Con said that I "complained of the cost of health care" and how it would "save people's lives. " However, as I have pointed out, this is a cost to the individual, and unnecessarily giving to an insurance company or a government program won't save my life- a savings account easily could. Given how insurance companies can be inefficient on occasion, saving money would be a far easier way to do things. C) Yes, many Americans suffer from many deadly illnesses. But, forcing somebody to pay who doesn't happen to have any of these conditions is unjust. D) You say that "Wanting the money sitting in a bank account instead of saving someone else's life is appalling and selfish. " Is it not appalling and selfish to, in the name of taxes, take that money that I worked for and give it to somebody who didn't? If i think that the money could be better used, I could give to one of many charities- I happen to belong to a church that donates very, very heavily. But for the government to mandate my charity is wrong and once again, prevents some individual rights. #2 Besides the military, I cannot think of a Government program that operates at 100% efficiency. Why would we want the government in our health care system? My opponent failed to mention one. Estimates give Medicaid another year before it goes bankrupt, and this is with the Feds pumping billions of dollars into it. But we're not getting rid of it, we're now trying to pass health care legislation that will pump it with steroids, only causing more government waste. #3 Con says that costs to the people and government do not relate, and that (if I understand correctly) if it costs the people so much, it shouldn't cost the government anything. However, this is a double edged sword. The more people are taxed, the more our economy flounders and the more it costs everybody. As I've said about how inefficient the government runs, the more we tax people, the lower the economy is, and the more debt individually and federally we grow. Remember the housing market? When the government decided to force all banks to supply loans for everybody, they couldn't handle the strain and the banks fell. So the government decides to dump billions of dollars into them and we end up more in federal debt. The same thing will happen with health insurance. Individual debt and federal debt is very much linked. I will now rebut my opponents argument, which seems to be Social Contract. From what I gather, con says that we should give up some rights for the safety of others. I have several problems with this: A: "Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety. " Benjamin Franklin. I whole heartedly agree with him. Given how many died in wars for the cause of liberty, liberty can be called a higher value in the lives of many. I am not demeaning human life, but as Patrick Henry said, "Give me Liberty or Give me death. " B: Con assumes that the overall health insurance will save lives. But let's look to countries that have nationalized health care, like Canada, Britain, or France. All of them have tanking economies, falling populations, and no military to speak of, in comparison to our own. In many countries that have nationalized health care, the care is rationed and it takes at least a year on a waiting list to get a surgery that would be done in days in the United States. Currently, the United States has the best health care in the world. Leaders of other countries fly into America for our doctors and profesionals. Why should we decide to change this and put ourselves in a worse position than before by trying to become like other countries? C: It seems like the Con is implying that most would be willing to sacrifice their liberties to save lives. However, as of January 21st, 67% of Americans are opposed to the health care plan put up by Congress. So it is not the people giving up rights to help other people. It is the government taking our rights whether we want them to or not and deciding who to help. As our President has said many times, he will be passing it whether the American populace wants it or not. How is this justice? And what does this say about our Liberties?