The U.S. is headed toward a single-payer system of universal health care.At the same time we're seeing single-payer systems England and Canada failing?
Not likely.
Must be smoking some of that medicinal marijuana.
If our system is so bad, why do wealthy Canadians and Europeans keep coming here to use it? Why don't they stay in their wonderful socialistic health systems? Just wondering.
FWIW, I personally agree. Universal health care seems to be inevitable, and it will be the first priority of the next Dem elected president, whenever that might be. It's mainly a matter of how it's going to get structured.
In other countries with socialized medicine, there is NO suing the government for health care issues. Funny how this person wants the "best of both worlds" from a socialistic standpoint...
I agree.
Does anyone here have any experience with those Health Savings Plans. I was talking to a company the other day about it and it looked pretty good. What you pays goes into a medical IRA. What you don't use rolls over at year's end and stays in the account like an IRA. It looks like a good deal for a healthy family like mine. The deductibles are a bit higher, but I can't remember the last time I even came close to meeting the deductable on a standard Cigna plan.
Those MSA/HSA plans look like a much better alternative to socialized medicine, especially for the self-employed.
When will someone please stand up and shout: "WE ALREADY HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE AND IT IS THE BEST IN THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD!"?????When has ANYONE in the USA been DENIED HEALTHCARE?...........
I can actually see the greedy geezers demanding Hillarycare on top of their "free" prescription drugs and "free" SS checks.
Welcome to FR.
Where are all these doctors going to come from?
That is just nuts.
What would be wrong with some of opt-in system? Much like the SS that is being proposed. No doctor or client would be forced to deal with a federal system it would be their choice.
If the experiement falls on it's face (it most likely will) nobody loses and this whole converaation finally dies.
This, of course, is exactly the opposite of what we should be doing. But the masses screaming for more won't care. They are too stupid and thoughtless to care. By sheer force of numbers they will have it crammed down our throats, just like prescription medicine for seniors, and we'll will be one more swirl closer to the bottom of the toilet bowl.
And no. I'm not sure there is a damn thing any of us can do about it. I do know that we shouldn't go quietly.
I can't take someone named Lance Dickie seriously either.
Under the current insurance system, we pretty much have this in place already. The only difference is there is not a single payer.
Attendance at medical schools will drop like a rock...
I know that in Canada a lot of med students end up with really crummy locations where they have to start their practices...
ie...you go to school at UBC in Vancouver BC Canada, and the first place you may practice medicin is some podunk inuit village north of the 60...
not to mention that if you start your own practice you have to put up with the nurses unions etc...
My Physician (my best friends father) finally gave up his practice because he was sick of dealing with the government and the unions...
Don't forget that this is the same polling organization that ginned up FAKE polling results in support of Campaign Finance Reform!
Mark
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Thus it will turn to the Federal Government, with its legendary efficiency and lack of bureaucracy, for a solution. ;)