NorthernGent
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Oh I agree with your assesment that much of it is a scam. They keep adding layers to healthcare, then raise their wage periodically so doctors and hospitals can make more.
The only true way to resolve the situation is to nationalize the entire system. Pricing, levels of care, etc. If a Dr doesn't want to be part of the system, revoke his license to practice. Make first aid even a crime because they aren't authorized to provide care by the government. There are cases where this has been done. Most notable in my mind is the case (I forgot the people's name) where a sub medic had to perform surgery to save one of the sailors while on combat patrol. The military doctors wanted to send him to courts martial for practicing medicine without a license. Fortunately the command wouldn't do it.
I personally don't see healthcare as an entitlement. There was healthcare during the time that the Consitution was written. They didn't put it in there for whatever reason. So now SCOTUS had to justify it for congress by calling it a tax program. Me thinks some people are really screwed up because tax programs are run by accountants not healthcare professionals.
Well, if a Briton pays $5,000 US dollars less than an American, annually, for health care; then does it really matter that certain people are getting treatment against your principles? Ultimately, you're lining someone's pockets and paying for other people's ailments to a far greater tune that we are in Britain.
Add in that the British system consistently ranks as providing a much better service on just about every measure, then it appears that ideology alone is getting in the way of an improved system.
In England, the majority of people always vote for the Conservative Party, so we too like business to do things.
But, perhaps we are more pragmatic and less ideological in the sense that if we can get a good service at low cost, then who or what is delivering it is of limited importance.
Seems to me the American system is lining the pockets of private interests at the expense of the average American. An ideological view point that business must do everything seems to defeat the object.
That extra $5,000 you're each paying is going in someone else's pocket!
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