I grew up as a Navy brat and I'm an Army veteran, so I have experience with VA hospitals. I've also worked as a programmer in the healthcare industry for over 20 years. Trust me when I tell you that government run hospitals are atrocious when compared to private run hospitals. Just imagine the Dept. of Motor Vehicles running your hospital.
Additionally, much of the bureaucratic inefficiencies in private hospitals is the fault of government and programs like medicare and medicaid. The government partially runs hospitals via regulations. One of the reasons private insurance has gone up so high is because hospitals and other provides are forced to pass along medicare/caid costs by raising what they charge private insurances to make up for underpayment from medicare/caid. There other option is to drop or not take anymore medicare/caid patients which they do as well.
As far as taxes go, I think it is nuts that we send 50% of our income to the government. Plus, every dollar sent to the government is a dollar taken out of our economic engine. It is no different than owning a small business and taking money out of your business to spend on things like cars and houses. Every dollar taken out of your business is a dollar that can't be used to expand/improve your business. Oh, there is one difference, if you own a business then the business' money is your money, but the government doesn't have an intrinsic right to half of our income. Even worse, is the money the government spends that they don't have. The debt they keep piling up gets placed on our back, and the backs of the next generation who gets no say in the matter. Lastly, the government has taken to just printing massive quantities of money. Just wait until inflation raises its ugly head -- which the stalled housing market has been masking.
I'm not blasting Democrats because the only difference between Republicans and Democrats is that the Republicans know that high taxes, massive spending, borrowing, and printing of money is wrong, but when they're in power they do it too.
Additionally, much of the bureaucratic inefficiencies in private hospitals is the fault of government and programs like medicare and medicaid. The government partially runs hospitals via regulations. One of the reasons private insurance has gone up so high is because hospitals and other provides are forced to pass along medicare/caid costs by raising what they charge private insurances to make up for underpayment from medicare/caid. There other option is to drop or not take anymore medicare/caid patients which they do as well.
As far as taxes go, I think it is nuts that we send 50% of our income to the government. Plus, every dollar sent to the government is a dollar taken out of our economic engine. It is no different than owning a small business and taking money out of your business to spend on things like cars and houses. Every dollar taken out of your business is a dollar that can't be used to expand/improve your business. Oh, there is one difference, if you own a business then the business' money is your money, but the government doesn't have an intrinsic right to half of our income. Even worse, is the money the government spends that they don't have. The debt they keep piling up gets placed on our back, and the backs of the next generation who gets no say in the matter. Lastly, the government has taken to just printing massive quantities of money. Just wait until inflation raises its ugly head -- which the stalled housing market has been masking.
I'm not blasting Democrats because the only difference between Republicans and Democrats is that the Republicans know that high taxes, massive spending, borrowing, and printing of money is wrong, but when they're in power they do it too.
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