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Originally Posted by Aquila
Salaries will not go down as much as most think. They will become more competitive. And doctors will not have to pay as much in malpractice liability insurance seeing that lawsuits will be capped. So even if salaries go down a certain percentage, it will be made up for in other savings.
There is no such thing as a "free market" option. Unless we treat medicine like a free market commodity, there can't be. Again, imagine a car dealership working like healthcare. A person doesn't have financing or cash in hand. So the dealership gives them a car and bills them. They don't pay the bill. Guess what, the dealer will pass that loss down to the consumer. The effect... the price of the cars sold in that dealership will skyrocket until few can afford them. Car dealerships are "free market". That means unless one has financing or cash, they DON'T drive off with a new car! Medicine can only be handled like a free market service IF they choose NOT to treat those without insurance or cash to cover the service rendered. That's what most don't get. As long as it's an open system that treats anyone who wanders into the ER... it's a social system rather private... or government. And all loss is ultimately passed down to the consumer in higher healthcare costs... thereby raising premiums. So... you'll NEVER hear a free market option! LOL
The closest thing to a free market option is the ACA. It FORCES the uninsured to buy insurance from private insurance providers. It's essentially GOVERNMENT marching people into the hands of health insurance conglomerates at gun point. Again, the goal is to get as many as possible paying SOMETHING into the system. This would be far better achieved through Single Payer.
No system is perfect. What amazes me is that a person might wait a while to get a non-life threatening surgery in Canada because of a paperwork problem... but they eventually get the care they need. Every year an estimated 45,000 Americans DIE because they can't afford the car they need... but nobody cares??? I'm sure many of those families would have rather had a system where there were some clerical mishaps... but ultimately their loved one's received the care they needed. Keep in mind... many people know one of those uninsured people who couldn't afford the treatments they needed. If they would have had insurance... they could have had the checkups and treatments they needed. But they couldn't afford it.  Healthcare was rationed, right here in the U.S., to those who could afford it. And they died as a result. |
I have more to say about your post, but don't have time today.
However, I will post this interview with Betsy McCaughey who is brilliant on the Constitution and has read every single line of the Obamacare bill. She already knew they wanted to push everyone toward Medicaid so as to implement a Single Payer system.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99IiglbyA_4
The Truth Behind Obamacare Enrollment Numbers video interview with Neil Cavuto.
http://betsymccaughey.com/the-truth-...lment-numbers/
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