Are There Alternatives to Nationalized Medical Care?
Let us assume two propositions to be at least generally true in the U.S. context 1. 45 million without health insurance is a bad statistic for that 45 million and because the non-insured raise medical prices for all. 2. U.S. citizens generally dislike government run industries/programs Where does that leave us as a nation? Recently, President Bush said, ”I mean, people have access to health care in America, After all, you just go to an emergency room.” Bush is correct in a thin sense of the word correct, but as stated above, sending the uninsured to the emergency room for a fever only slows hospital services down and raises health care prices for everyone. The emergency room as medical access does not serve the common good due to being slow for the uninsured sick and expensive for the entire society. Clearly, the emergency room solution is D.O.A. Alexis de Tocqueville and Civil Society Tocqueville believed that democratic societies flourished when the citizens were bound together in
