I'll repeat this every once in awhile:
That people can't get insurance is a question of affordability - not "rationing".
The affordability probem comes from government malfeasance:
- Refusal to stop the theft of american medical intellectual property by foreign governments to prop up their statist health systems.
- Refusal to clamp down on tort lawyers, who drive up prices by increasing doctors' liability insurance rates.
- State governments creating near-monopolies of a few insurance companies in their states.
- State mandates for insurance company coverage of non-diseases - eg abortion and pregnancy.
- Refusal to stop the looting of the medical system by tens of millions of illegal alien invaders.
- Refusal to stop cost-shifting of medical providers onto insured patients due to under-reimbursement for medicare and medicaid patients, thus driving up private insurance costs.
- Long lag times by the FDA in approving new meds, driving up their cost.
The leftwing solution? Give government, the entity which has screwed up the health system, vast new powers, and implement REAL rationing for everyone.
