If you want the State to ration care then universal care is for you.
If you want insurance companies to ration care then our current system is for you.
If you, the individual, want to ration your care, then we need to open up the market.Under the current system, once you reach 65 you'll face government rationing whether you like it or not- unless you can afford $30K-$150K annual premiums to retain private cover, in which case you can experience an insurer's loving form of rationing when you develop a chronic illness. ;-)
"Open up" the market? Sounds great, but what precisely does it mean? Sort of like "opening up" the financial markets, maybe?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
