No one is claiming that the system is perfect. As I said, we had a terrible experience, and I became quite familiar with hospital emergency rooms, ICU’s, etc. No attorney was willing to take our case, either, and our father died as a result of what any reasonable person would consider medical malpractice.
But this thread is about complete government control - socialized medicine - and whether or not it would be an improvement on our current system. And, so far, no one has presented evidence that it would be.
Agreed...my only caveat is too many people are so disillusioned with what’s in place beyond the tipping point of JUST DOING SOMETHING, ANYTHING...CHANGE for CHANGE’S sake...blah blah blah...
sound familiar?
We do ourselves no favors by down-playing or outright ignoring what’s going on all around us! Or even worse, making statements like: “lawyers wiil sue hospitals for not ‘treating’ people”.
We need to acknowledge real world flaws and collectively come up with the solutions!
I TRY to do my part by limiting fraud waste and abuse.
You’d be SHOCKED at the cost of medicine we just throw out every month, that’s not even been opened and still sealed!