People who oppose a national health care plan want you to believe that if such a plan exists, you will be torn away from your doctor, whom you will swear is the greatest doctor on the planet and has to be forced to accept any money for his heroic endeavors, and forced to go to my house, where I will be waiting with a rusty saw and rubber mallet and a burlap sack with a huge $ on it.
Number one, just because a doctor exists in the present system does not necessarily mean that he's honest (see HERE) or even remotely competent (see HERE...how'd you like to be this poor woman?) As with any field, there are great doctors, good doctors, and crappy doctors. Dr. Oz of course is above all (Oprah inside-joke all the ladies in the house.) The market is not going to all of a sudden be flooded with whacky, Dr. Nick from the Simpsons-styled doctors. And you won't even hafta go to them anyway unless you don't have health insurance, in which case Dr. Nick is better than no doctor at all. As in a fat loser like me could go in and have some preventative care done for fractions of the cost of only being able to go to the ER once my heart has exploded to ribbons and costs everybody $400K.
UPDATE: I just posted this and now see Matt Yglesias is asking that if private companies can do so much better than a government-run system, they should have to prove it (you know, like Pelosi ZZZINGGG!!!)
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