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It would take healthcare decisions further away from the doctor/patient relationship. There would be a disincentive for the brightest people to even pursue a career as a physician because the government would restrict their compensation- guaranteed insurance but not guaranteed access to actual health care.
There is a reason why increasing numbers of physicians are either leaving practice altogether or joining large cooperatives to survive and why many have stopped taking medicare patients- government setting compensation and heaping more and more regulation and paperwork on them with no real benefit.
How much time do primary care physicians now send filling out arcane documentation versus providing patient care now? Under total government control you can double it and double the number of useless bureaucrats administering it. Right now, thanks to government interference, the average U.S. doctor spends 16.6 percent of his or her working hours on non-patient-related paperwork, time that might otherwise be spent caring for patients. And the more time doctors spend on such bureaucratic tasks, the unhappier they are about having chosen medicine as a career.
Even now, a physician has to see multiple times as many patients to make the cash of even 10 years ago. If you have brains, medicine is still a pretty guaranteed way to make a lot of money. What your proposal does is kill the incentive for people to take on all that debt and time investment for schooling and training. Also, shit pay means the docs are less invested in the outcomes and quality suffers.
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Link: Cons
You're the best.
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HP doesn't refute any of the crap that gets posted on it's stupid blogs.
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Maybe you should have moved there
lineup of contributors.
Try again.
Provide evidence that the article is wrong
are down and they can afford it. There would be no place for Americans needing timely and quality HC to go.
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You should stop talking about health care in other countries. Seriously. You have no idea what you are talking about.
providers in England. I read plenty. The link is only one example. The problems and delays for services are well known.
Link: Single payer.
Understand the difference between knowledge and intelligence.
immediately. Look at the Canadian wait times.
Link: HC
my knowledge obtained through personal experience is all wrong. Those people who lived it did not know, even though they lived it.
In University I was asked to explain it and I couldn't.
I had the knowledge but not the intelligence.
You figure the rest out.
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You didn't let me have the last word. I took it.
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Link: Long waits.
In an ideal world it could be done and be great, but it's doubtful it could happen in our current political climate.
The VA is only an extension of that horrible practice.
I wonder who is going to pay for all of it and where the money will come from. I wonder how something that will become free will greatly increase demand and strain what we have now.
And this is coming from someone who has a shoulder that desperately needs treatment and probably surgery but I have to do without, and a back injury that won't heal.
Even Wal-Mart gives benefits now.
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Ideally, eliminating those is where the cost savings would come from.
It will still be around for a couple of years.
You may well be eligible for subsidies. There are people whose job it is to help you figure it out.
Unless, of course, you live in a state where the government screwed you.
Because my job offers it. I just can't afford the $1,100 per month premiums. I know to you and everyone on this board that's chicken feed, but to me it's most of my paycheck.
That's highway robbery. I pay over $850 for a family of four and I thought that was ridiculous.
Britain, for example, spends less per capital on healthcare than we do with fine results.
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know who you are referring to as them.
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Link: HC
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So fuck that.
I doubt there would be better outcomes, but controlling costs is enough for me to support it.
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I mean the Mao jacket was perfectly adequate for every man, woman and child in China... wasn't it?
But the biggest con will be that the wealthy white men in the US will be upset they don't belong to that exclusive club of HC any longer.
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Got up early, took a drive upstate (in the fog) with friends.
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