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Originally Posted by Mantus
The idea that government burocracies are less efficient then private organization is a bit flawed. Most of the world's most healthy countries have universal healthcare systems and all of them manage to be do more with less.
Canada spends 9.6% of their $30,000 GDP while we spend 14.6% of our $36,000 GDP and has a better healthcare system.
Corruption is a given when it comes to the govenment but it's just as frequent in the corporate world. Govenment coruption usually leads to an increase in costs while in the corporate world coruption leads to decline in services.
Finally, it seems that privatization of any social service never works. The problem is very obvious: corporations are loyal only to the share holders, a stance which runs in direct conflict with social services.
Just some thoughts.
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Canada has an abysmal healthcare system. Abysmal. Doctors and other health care professionals fleeing the country in droves, at their earliest possible opportunity, to practice, those who can afford it looking south of the 49th to stay alive and middle class taxpayers KEEPING 45 cents on every dollar they make (that's a 55% payroll tax)...and then paying 15-20 percent sales tax on everything they buy. People waiting six months to get an appointment, and every tom, dick and harry stressing the emergency rooms with the sniffles.
It is not cheaper and it is not better. Not by a long shot.
There is ONE place and only one place on this entire planet that is the envy of every health care professional, and patient in need of medical care...and it is right here in the good old US of A.
Please don't misunderstand me by assuming I don't think there is room for improvement..there is...there always is and there always will be.
I have some thoughts on these needed improvements...but must get home to the little one. A brief preview:
1. Lawsuit reform
2. Liabilty reform
3. Expectation realignment. Sorry but smokers, alchy's, obese, and other high risk life style choosers don't get to live like the rest of us who didn't abuse our temple, imho.
4. Pharmacuetical distribution changes.
Involving the government in some universal health care wealth redistribution ponzi scheme will compound the problem, vastly deteriorating quality of care and greatly increasing the costs of this care. Just like it has happened everywhere else this utopia scheme was perputrated.
I hear the flawed argument about superior health care in countries with socialized medicine...unfortunately I have never seen the argument have any validity. The poster I quoted above is no exception.
-bear