Response to Challenge to the Legal Challenge of ObamaCare

Love that ironic turn. This is an extended response, but your challenge deserves a proper vetting.

Which countries are you thinking of that spend less for more health care?

Cuba, perhaps? Cuban caudillo Fidel Castro sets up a nice-nice facility for the world community to look at, but the Cuban people get substandard care, if any -- just ask the hordes of exiles who flee the country year after year.

England, perhaps? Prime Minister David Cameron has no choice but to the cut the exorbitant outlays to a dysfunctional program which forces patients to wait for months before they can see a physician. I have read reports in which pregnant women have been forced to give birth in hallways, because the baby won't wait for a doctor in a socialized system.

Sweden or Norway? Routinely patients in the Nordic countries are forced to ship their patients to the Continent -- particularly Germany - because there are not enough doctors to care for patients (in a socialist system, doctors are poorly compensated), and there are not enough facilities and technologies to assist patients -- socialist systems never allocate resources properly, so there is rampant waste

Canada, then? The Supreme Court of Quebec ruled in 2005 that a private citizen may spend his own money on private health insurance rather than waiting for the state to make room for him. The litigant in that case needed a hip replacement --long ago, and he could not afford to wait! Canadian doctors who practiced before and after the state system was set up have commented that under the single payer system, they get less money for their services, there is more paperwork, and they can be penalized for providing pro bono care, because they would be violating the equity laws associated with the single payer system.

Health Care professionals are fleeing that country for the United States, where they are taxed less, receive better pay, and enjoy a better quality of care than in the Great White North.

We do not need more government regulation to bring down health care. If we allowed individuals to buy health and insurance and carry it across state lines, permitted employees to invest in tax-credited Health Savings Accounts, and instituted tort reform to protect hospitals and physicians from outrageous legal settlements, it would increase competition, drive down costs, and provide more quality access for everyone! We have no right to demonize health insurance companies, who have a very low profit margin for all the money they seem to accrue.