Thomas Freer on Healthcare a right or privilege?
Thomas Freer
Healthcare a right or privilege?
Claims and stances
Transcript
- 0:00 Yeah, um, this is a great topic, and I really wanna emphasize on one of the things you did mention, but go a little deeper in the fact that many critics of public free health care believe that it would lower the quality of um our healthcare system in the US.
- 0:21 And currently our system, our doctors are you know globally world renowned.
- 0:29 Some of the best doctors in the world are in the US on the East Coast in Atlanta, maybe New York, or maybe in Los Angeles, and that is because there is money to be made.
- 0:41 And I just worry that if we completely publicize healthcare, that those doctors would flee.
- 0:50 They'd go to other countries where they can make more money, or they'd, you know, there would not be nearly as high an emphasis on um becoming pre-med or going to med school in the US.
- 1:02 That would hurt.
- 1:03 Um, that industry, the colleges that offer med school, um, and it would just lower the competition, it would make less competent doctors.
- 1:13 But I do agree, like you said, it should be some sort of mix.
- 1:17 Uh people being in medical debt their entire lives over something they can't control is just it's just horrible.
- 1:24 And I do think that's something that the public can take care of together.
- 1:29 Um, it's just gonna be expensive, and I I think that that budget balancing has to come out of some other part of the government.