Ben Levi,
I don’t know how to respond to you when you keep bringing up arguments against a government health insurance program, and that is not what is up for discussion
A600KiloBear,
My wife is a physician and today almost all of her patients have New York Medicaid for her insurance. I asked her how many times she had had Medicaid deny coverage for a treatment she had recommended. The answer: Zero. I expressed surprise but she said that she was also amazed at how friendly they are and at how many things they cover. I then asked her how often she had denials of coverage when she worked in a clinic treating patients with private insurance. She said it happened all the time and that she spent huge amounts of time arguing with them. Your argument that government insurance always results in denials of service has thus been disproven. Unfortunately, New York is one of the few states to adequately fund Medicaid.
Bemused,
You are the one who is confused on moral issues as well as what insurance is about. The entire concept is spread risk around the entire community. Essentially, those less well off are taken care of by those who are better off. Do you really think insurance is immoral?