We need health care reform but a public option is just not sustainable. Especially because of the condition that our economy is in. I am very willing to have a intelligent debate about how to fix this problem.Remember The only reason insurance play such a big part in today's health care is because cost have gotten so out of control. Think about every other insurance that you have. You don't buy car insurance to get in a wreck the next day do you. Health insurance was used only for emergency before the government started intervening and cost started going up.(I will show examples of this in my post)EX's The AMA was given the monopoly on licensing doctors. Congress controls the supply of physicians by how much federal funding it provides for medical residencies — the graduate training required of all doctors.The AMA lobbys too limit the number of doctor's who can legally practice medicinehttp://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-03-02-doc ...In the United States the number, curriculum, and size of medical schools are restricted by state licensing boards controlled by representatives of state medical societies associated with the AMA."Mark J. Perry, an economist at the University of Michigan, argues that “we would probably go a long way to solving our ‘health care crisis’� if the “medical cartel� hadn’t prevented medical schools from expanding to meet students’ demands for more places. He notes that American law schools responded to the growing population by expanding the number of places available, whereas medical schools shrunk instead. As a result, their rejection rates rose, frustrating students who wanted to be doctors. The result was fewer doctors to care for the growing population, but it was good for those who did get accepted, as Dr. Perry illustrates in a chart showing that salaries for doctors in the United States are double to triple what their counterparts make in Europe.One way to relieve the shortage of providers that the medical industry has created would be for the A.M.A. to abandon its aggressive game of turf-protection and allow nurses, midwives, physician assistants and practitioners of alternative therapies such as chiropractors, to offer standard treatments for routine illnesses without physician supervision. For instance, midwifery, once a robust industry in this country, has been virtually destroyed, thanks to the intense lobbying against it by the medical industry. In 1995, 36 states restricted or outright banned midwifery, even though studies have found that it delivers equally safe care at far lower prices than standard hospital births. "Is A.M.A. Support for Health Reform a Bad Sign?http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/is- ...We do not need general practitioners for basic medical services. Through force of government intervention, certification and licensing (under the guise of efficiency, standardization and increased professional standards) has removed the entire bottom level of the healthcare system, forcing people to pay higher costs for services that could be provided cheaper, and taking supply away from people with more serious illness.The 1962 Kefauver-Harris Amendment account for 85% of current pharmaceutical cost.1962, laws passed makes it almost impossible to get a new drug approved. In 1948 one well-know pharmaceutical company (Parke & Davis) had to summit 73 page of evidence to secure the licensing of a drug. In 1968, this same company had to submit 72,200 of data transported by truck, in a effort to have an anaesthetic licenses. Once a lot of these regulation that drive up cost of doctors and medicine are gone it will be cheaper to start up private hospitals.56% of all hospitals in America were privately own and for profit in 1910. After 60 years of subsides for government-run hospitals, the number had fallen to about 10%. Medical expenditures rose by 224% from 1965 - 1989. Number of hospital beds per 1,000 population fell by 44%. Remember what we have now is not a free market system, it's a government managed system and national health insurance is a different type a government managed system.Over-reaching FDA regulations have caused the premature deaths of millions of Americans, according to research scientist Mary J. Ruwart, Ph.D., who also said federal regulations passed in 1962 are responsible for more than 80 percent of the cost of today's prescription drugs.Instead of protecting Americans from unsafe drugs, Ruwart said, "these particular regulations, the 1962 Kefauver-Harris Amendments, have proven to be more deadly than all of the drug toxicity that occurred before their passage." She estimated that between 1963 and 1999, 4.7 million people died prematurely while the medicines that could have saved them languished in mandated testing."The amendments saved a few thousand lives, but the cost was [in] letting millions die [while] waiting for treatment. That's why the amendments are 'excess' regulation," Ruwart said.http://www.heartland.org/publications/health%20car ...Sky-rocketing costs are caused by government intervention in the market, that causes artificially high pharmaceutical cost and a lack of competition.Total Health Expenditures as a Share of GDP, U.S. and Selected Countries, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2003xxxxxxxxxxxxxx1970xx1980xx1990xx2003Australia xxxxxx$252xx$691xx$1,306x$2,886Canada xxxxxxx299xxx783xxxx1,737xx2,998Switzerland xxxx351xxx1,031xx2,029xx3,847United Kingdomxx163xxx480xxx987xxxx2,317United Statesxxxx352xxx1,072xx2,752xx5,711Swedenxxxxxxxx312xxx944xxx1,589xx2,745http://www.kff.org/insurance/snapshot/chcm010307ot ...Government managed healthcare start out good be gets more and more expensive. Just like Medicare and Social Security. which makes it unsustainable."We're officially past the point where Social Security and Medicare insolvency are far-off problems that we can ignore.Medicare is going bust sooner than we expected. And this isn't some crazy, partisan rambling. This is coming straight from the government"http://www.businessinsider.com/medicare-insolvent- ...Some people say government is currently trying to tackle the fairness of access, but without significantly decreasing costs.But those people are ignoring the problem of consistently rising cost. The system won't be very fair when the government cant pay for healthcare because cost got too out of control.When healthcare cost get too high. Countries will ether start rationing care, meaning people who need care won't get it or countries will start going in to debt to pay for health care which could lead to bankruptcy. None of this is very fair.Countries all around the world don't want to treat healthcare as a goods but it is. It's a service that requires money to provide. Most people in these countries think government intervention has solved their healthcare issue. But little do they know that it was government intervention in the first place that started prices to spiral up. Government managed healthcare is a ticking time bomb of pain. America's bomb is probably going to go off first. Why? Because Americas economy is going down and healthcare cost are going up. All the people dependent on Medicare and Social Security are going to be left with no help. This could easily happen to any other countries, economies are not static.Sry for the length it's not a simple argument but you asked.