[listless]

This is the best argument against a public health system. Once you turn it over, the government controls far more of your life than you bargained for. I suppose some people are OK with that. However, history is cold comfort to those of us who are skeptical.

[siquick]

I'd rather have public healthcare and a government that "controls far more of your life" than some faceless insurance company controlling my access to healthcare.

[legerdemain]

You can become far healthier by yourself by exercising basic self-control and using a little bit of open-minded health research than by paying lots of money to some profit-minded doctors. No insurance company needed!

[siquick]

I'll remember that the next time I'm in A&E.

[RichEO]

What history? I don’t know of any society that adopted socialised health care and there were overwhelmingly negative outcomes.