usually I like wiki but we must always remember it is written by anonymous people on the net.
Here is what you the wiki article said:
"Healthcare rationing in the United States exists in various forms. Access to private health care insurance is rationed based on price and ability to pay. Those not able to afford a health insurance policy are unable to acquire one, and sometimes insurance companies pre-screen applicants for pre-existing medical conditions and either decline to cover the applicant or apply additional price and medical coverage conditions.[1][2][3] Access to state Medicaid programs is restricted by income and asset limits via a means-test, and to other federal and state eligibility regulations. Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) that commonly cover the bulk of the population, restrict access to treatment via financial and clinical access limits.[4]"
In the very first sentence it made the mistake of confusing health care with insurance. Access to private insurance is indeed limited to those who can pay but everybody can get health care. Shoddy shoddy shoddy.
The article even shows that all people will either get their health care through private insurance or through Medicaid. Medicare and private insurance and personal wealth together provides a complete health care system that is not limited despite each one having limits.
The wiki article also does not provide a definition of rationing and violates the definition that Gen provided.
The article states that if health care is a limited resource that it must be rationed. But in a country in which not a single solitary citizen does not have access to health care how can it be called a limited resource?
I started a thread here asking for one example of a single person who does not have access to health care and to date no one has provided a sample. Anyone care to provide a link for Pepper?
