“But there are no resources. The government should do something”
You can imagine how crazy it drives me to hear people say something like that (and I hear it more often than you’d believe). In every case, the fact that “there are no resources” is precisely because the government has already “done something”: regulate resources into scarcity.
Case in point: Ross County (where I grew up) has little in the way of medical help for opiate addicts. Gee, I wonder why?
The government limits physician treatment to 30 patients in their first year and 100 in subsequent years, leaving many area abusers looking for treatment on waiting lists.
The limitation has frustrated Tomasulo over the last year. For example, she said there was a person who called for treatment but was placed on a waiting list. Within three weeks, she said there was an opening - either someone moved or left the program - but it was too late. The person had already overdosed, she said.
Yes, the government should “do something”: Fuck off and stop interfering in people’s lives.
I don’t normally drop f-bombs on here, but this makes me so incredibly angry. It is incomprehensible to me how otherwise intelligent people can possibly imagine that MORE government involvement in healthcare is a good idea.
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OMG! You are not suggesting people have personal responsibility are you.
It’s less about that and more about the fact that the mess we have in American healthcare is a DIRECT RESULT of government regulation and interference. Only a moron could deduce that more of the same is in order. I mean that: One must be a moron (or deluded to the point of mental illness) to believe that more government regulation and involvement in healthcare would be a good thing.