On Deck : Government Universal Health Care

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Originally Posted by GermanDunk

Why are the US going wild, just because BO wants to start "universal healthcare" ( which i don´t think he can manage )

Many of the conditions that make universal health care work in other countries just don't exist here. From the way we produce doctors, the infrastructures like government owned facilities, the billing and fee structure, the sheer size and population etc....

If you look at all our government programs they are full of waste and fraud. Many of us think if the effort was put into lowering costs the price could be made reasonable again. It isn't that the average person doesn't have access to care, it's that they can't afford it.

Once the process starts, it will make changes that will be damn near impossible to reverse. And the very real possibility that private insurers will just leave the market because they can't compete is very real, despite it not being in the initial legislation. Will private companies still offer it as a benefit if they don't have to? Over here the employers that offer it as a benefit pay part of the premium. It used to be a cheap benefit for both. As costs have increased it's become a severe burden for both.

Many companies are actually self insured and only use private insurers for administration. You are going to suck people out of the private sector. It's inevitable. Insurance works on the principle of spreading risk over many.
Subtract from the pool of customers.......

We already have Doctors who refuse to accept Medicare, the state run coverage for senior citizens, because it pays too little and takes 90 days or longer to be paid.

Simply covering everyone without a serious attempt to lower costs is stupid. It will discourage people to become Doctors at a time our population is going to have huge number of elderly.