Opposing National Socialized Healthcare Movement

Over and over, I hear from supporters of Obamacare the following argument- right now there is no choice on what kind of health insurance I can get. The supporters of national socialized healthcare believe that there are no choices available. This argument is so incredibly wrong that it is either advanced by idiots or those who are liars. If you open a phone book or look online, there are dozens of healthcare providers in your area who would love your business.

The supporters of Obamacare should be saying that there are no healthcare insurance plans that they can afford. That argument is even more interesting- it would be worthwhile to ask people who make this argument what sort of car they drive, how often they go on vacation, where they eat out to dinner at, and how big their house is. If they are poor, they are already on some form of government-provided healthcare- rather, many of the people who support Obamacare have money, they just choose not to spend it on healthcare.

Let's say though that healthcare insurance was expensive, beyond what is reasonable to expect an average person or business to pay. If that is the case, how does moving healthcare system to an inefficient government with tremendous overhead and fraud lower the cost opposed to thousands of businesses who compete based on cost and who make their living in being as efficient as possible? On what basis or logic or history do people believe that having the government run the healthcare system would provide lower costs and yet still provide the quality of service that they expect?

In reality, the high cost to healthcare is a problem- but the problem lies in government regulation, fees, and limits to competition. There are solutions advanced, such as tort reform, that would lower the cost of healthcare insurance and yet still provide service. And yet there are still people out there that still want to put us on a national socialized healthcare system- a system that likely will raise the cost of healthcare insurance and lower the quality of service.

One has to wonder- are the supporters of this policy stupid, or just liars about their real goals?