CJ Pearson Breaks Down Left Versus Right on Healthcare: Free Government Care or Free Market Competition

[00:00] I'm CJ Pearson and this is left versus

[00:02] right let's talk about the issue of

[00:05] healthcare we'll start with some points

[00:07] of agreement nobody wants people to

[00:09] needlessly suffer from treatable

[00:11] illnesses or injuries and no one wants

[00:13] someone ruined because of unforeseen

[00:15] catastrophic medical bills the

[00:17] difference in opinion is how to achieve

[00:19] that goal for the left Healthcare is a

[00:21] human right and therefore should be

[00:23] provided to every citizen by the

[00:24] government they say that everyone has a

[00:26] shared responsibility for everyone else

[00:29] so the cost should be shared by everyone

[00:31] through taxation those who have more the

[00:35] wealthy should pay more that is why the

[00:38] left supports the Affordable Care Act

[00:40] which has become known as Obamacare

[00:42] after the president who introduced it

[00:44] Barack Obama it greatly expanded the

[00:46] role of government in healthcare

[00:47] creating a Marketplace design to make

[00:49] Healthcare more affordable for everyone

[00:52] those on the right point out that

[00:53] Obamacare more than doubled health

[00:55] insurance cost for workers and families

[00:57] with the national average premium

[00:59] increasing by by 129% from 2013 to 2019

[01:04] the right says that people should pay

[01:05] for their own healthare and the

[01:07] government should play a minimal role

[01:09] this promotes competition between

[01:10] Healthcare Providers and drives down

[01:12] medical cost only when someone is truly

[01:15] unable to afford health care should the

[01:16] government step in the left says that if

[01:19] everyone had free healthare everyone

[01:21] would be healthier and costs would come

[01:22] down the right challenges this because

[01:25] there aren't any examples where this is

[01:26] actually worked Canada has universal

[01:29] healthcare and costs have gone up while

[01:31] quality has gone down for example the

[01:33] average weight time to get an MRI in

[01:35] Canada is 3 months in the US you can get

[01:38] one in a day the left says that long

[01:41] wait times for government run Health

[01:43] Care may happen but that the quality of

[01:45] the treatment will not be affected

[01:47] everyone will at least get the same

[01:49] quality of care even if weight times are

[01:52] long but the right says if the

[01:54] government takes over Healthcare who is

[01:56] accountable when things go wrong in a

[01:58] competitive situation Healthcare provid

[01:59] providers are subject to lawsuits

[02:01] reputational damage and the subsequent

[02:03] loss of business but when the government

[02:06] is in control the consumer has nowhere

[02:09] to turn the right believes there will be

[02:12] a better outcome if people are allowed

[02:13] to choose the healthcare services they

[02:15] want and the providers who can best meet

[02:17] their needs a 25-year-old is likely to

[02:20] have fewer health issues than a

[02:22] 55-year-old therefore the 25-year-old's

[02:24] policy should be much less expensive the

[02:27] left counters by claiming that sure

[02:29] Young people are subsidizing the system

[02:31] but when they get older someone will

[02:33] subsidize them and that is only fair

[02:37] let's recap the left wants Healthcare to

[02:40] be paid for through taxes and

[02:41] administered by the government they

[02:43] believe that if young and healthy people

[02:45] pay into the healthare system through

[02:46] taxes older and sick people will be able

[02:49] to have their expensive care covered the

[02:51] right believes that through competition

[02:53] the private sector provides more options

[02:55] and faster access for more people than a

[02:57] government run program ever could they

[02:59] believe while there are instances when a

[03:01] person might need government assistance

[03:03] for medical treatment this should only

[03:05] be a last resort where do you stand I'm

[03:08] CJ Pearson for

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