Quote:
Originally posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts
Please show me some financial numbers to corroborate this statement.
-Wayne
|
This system as it is cannot provide free health care because it would collapse....
It needs to be reformed.
We do not need a GP that sees you for 15 mins (because he needs to meet a quota number before he gets reimboursed) and sends you to a specialist (who is more expensive but you don't care because you have insurance) that orders a non necessary procedure (just to be sure because if he/she misses something they'll get their ass sued).
Nobody really cares because the GP gets his reimbourse, the patient sees the specialist and gets the best ever possible care, the specialist gets paid by the insurance and the insurance company raises the rates to cover for more costs.
So no as it is the health care system in the US is impossible to have free, but as someone mentioned above you could have a basic system avaliable to everybody (the state in this case is the big insurer that takes on the risk) and then a "plus" system for people that want to pay for it.
But then there are always problems.. for example do u pay all the doctors the same? Do you pay a hearth surgeon the same as a pediatric? What if someone is better than the other? With a system that is controlled by the state you eliminate the market forces that determine the various compesations.
So all of a sudden one important factor of the drive towards excellence is taken out of the equation....
Yes you could allow doctors to open "private" clinics where the citizens that can pay could go... But then why allow some doctors to go whilst others get stuck in the public system....
It's not so easy.