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Have you ever been to the DMV and had to wait in line? If you haven't done your due diligence and made an appointment with the DMV or you need to get in quickly and don't have two months to wait for the next available appointment then you have a rough idea of what universal health care would be like. It would be run by the government. And we all know how fast and effective the government is. I have some close friends from Ireland where they have universal health care and when they need to see a doctor or a dentist they have to wait months in order to see someone. If it is an emergency you will be treated, when the doctor gets a chance.

But the doctors themselves are just average Joes who have limited schooling compared to U.S. doctors. This is another simple concept that people often overlook. If you nationalize health care then it becomes just an average profession and as such you get average personnel operating on you. Would you rather have the best of the best working on you heart, someone who went through years of extensive training and has studied medicine their whole life, or have someone working on you who got average grades in school and fell back on being a doctor rather then striving forward for it?

Do you enjoy advances in medicine? Do you think that certain changes and new technologies are good for your health? Well if you do then you will not enjoy the results of American nationalized health care. A simple fact that people don't know is that nearly 100% of medical advances comes from America. Europe has largely already nationalized health care and as a result the people with intelligence enough to develop new advances choose other professions where they can earn more money. In the U.S. we adequately pay developers of new medicine (the payment comes from the private sector because health care is not nationalized) and therefore nearly all advances in medicine come from America.

If you have any clue what universal health care is like then you would say no. You still pay for universal health care. People don't understand this. It is not free, your taxes will go up and you will pay for it no matter how you want to cut it. Do you enjoy taxes? Do you enjoy massive increases in taxes? Again if you answered no then you may want to re-think universal health care.

Lets just run this down again. You will pay a similar amount to what you pay now. You will wait much longer for services and will have much worse service when you do finally get it. The doctors will be less educated, we won't have nearly the amount of advances in medicine that we have now, and you will have to deal with a massive bureaucracy which we all so enjoy. If the above described sounds like something you would prefer then by all means go forward with universal health care. If, however, you just saw the light, then maybe you should take a step back and analyze universal health care a little further.

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