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Originally Posted by Willravel
I was rounding, but yeah 46.6 million out of 300 million as of 2005 is something to be deeply ashamed of as a civilization.
This is where PUB discussions fail. I can verify that this isn't true through citations, but we don't allow those. All I can do is say, "You're wrong," and get stuck in a stalemate.
Universal health care would completely decimate private insurance in savings (private health care has administrative costs of about $300 billion annually). Private insurers would start going belly up left and right, and the few stubborn conservatives and ultra rich wouldn't be able to support the huge number of physicians that would want to work privately. Some might get lucky, but a vast majority would have to either enter a new profession, which means a waste of 8 years of schooling and god knows how much tuition, or they'd be absorbed into the public system. If they're anything like every other time that a private system has become a public system, most will join the public health care system and do just fine.
Not only that, but over half of US doctors support universal healthcare according to that Reuters newspaper on the bar beside you.
I'm afraid you're not on the right side of this one.
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well you must be reading something i'm not because I can verify it's true. Like I said 45 millions americans don't have PRIVATE insurance, some are covered under current govn't plans or are eligible. The real number is closer to 10-15 million, which is still alot i'm not saying it isn't.
The govn't plan would have just as many admin costs as private insurance. Doctors will not accept the government plan unless they pay what the doctor charges period. They can't be fased out, they won't simply put up their hands and surrender.
You assume I'm not on the right side of this issue. I agree that something needs to be done to stop run away costs, a complete government take over of medicine isn't the answer. I don't know what the CORRECT answer is, but I'm able to admit it. I've been in the insurance industry for 6 years, my wife has been in the ER for 5 years, most of you have absoulutely no idea what you are talking about when it comes to this issue you just have opinions, not realistic solutions