# Thoughts on National Healthcare **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [February 2, 2008, 6:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thoughts-on-national-healthcare/195204 "2008-02-02T06:55:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![beat90tsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/43a26b/32.png) [@beat90tsi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/beat90tsi)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 5:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thoughts-on-national-healthcare/195204/21 "2008-02-05T17:55:34Z")
> [@WNY SCCA Solo Event 8 - ECCN - 9/2/07](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-solo-event-8-eccn-9-2-07/34609/44): > > Explain that to your son. when his best friend needs a life threatning surgery and will be on presciptions the rest of his life. then his Best friend needs to move because his dads well paying job has shitty health care coverage and can’t cover it. what basic WELFARE would cover. > > Then what??? You’re missing the point. It’s not just about horrible circumstances. What about “Citizen A” who rarely goes to the doctor because he has a gym membership, exercise bike, and eats healthy food that costs twice as much as McDonalds. His neighbor eats cheap shitty food, is 100lbs overweight, watches TV every night, never goes to the gym, has 3 bypass surgeries and is on $200/month worth of prescription drugs for his high blood pressure because he refuses to change his lifestyle. How is it ok to make citizen A pay for citizen B’s medical coverage? All socialized medicine would do is create longer waiting times at hospitals, introduce mountains of paperwork and 17 new bureaucracies. Ultimately, just as Canada is now, private medical facilities will start to emerge where people who pay cash can get immediate coverage for whatever they want. The people on government healthcare will be waiting in lines, filling out paperwork and receiving inferior care. Why do you think nobody sends large packages with the USPS anymore? They can’t compete and they’re actually subsidized. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thoughts-on-national-healthcare/195204)._