No one seems to have a problem with the U.S. health system from a quality aspect, its only the price which is driving this movement to socialization.
It seems to me that socialized medicine is throwing the baby out with the bathwater as there's no evidence that the same quality of care would be any cheaper, especially since no socialized system is yet able to provide the quality of care that the U.S. system does in order to do any sort of cost comparison.
Yet the same people who are pushing for this, are against any sort of meaningful tort reform, which puts major upwards pressure on healthcare prices, and are also against eliminating the layers of government-imposed regulations on healthcare professionals both within and without the government-funded "insurance" organizations. Not to mention the quagmire that is the FDA...
We used to have quality health care that was affordable, and it was before the government and the trial lawyers got involved. More government certainly isn't the solution.
"We used to have quality health care that was affordable, and it was before the government and the trial lawyers got involved. More government certainly isn't the solution."
Worth repeating!
Yep... doctors are forced by default to use the most expensive procedures... because they are liable if they don't and a complication happens. Not to mention how many hurdles drugs have to be put through to be approved--meanwhile the government fasttracks a bunch of drugs like RU-486 for political reasons.
Personally I think it's the idea of insurance at all that caused this whole mess. If everyone had car insurance that paid for oil changes, gas fill-ups, car washes, etc., guess what happens to the price of gas?
I'd go the extreme and mandate that every insurance carry a minimum deductible of $3000 per adult, $500 per child over 3 years. You can bet that people won't be running to the doctor for colds or sore throats anymore.