Do we want universal health insurance coverage in the U.S.?

Question

If we get universal insurance, will the medical industry fix prices so high that nobody is better off?

I've been in commonwealth countries where the "evil" socialized medical care was much better than with an HMO in the US. But what is always proposed in the U.S. is universal insurance, not universal care.

Answer 1

If you get universal health care, the government will set the prices the doctors and HMO s can charge, and the prices will drop. Do you realize that you pay upwards of ten times the price for any proceedure in the States than we do in Canada. And that thousands of people come north, or go south to Mexico for medical care simply because they can't afford it in the states.

Answer 2

Pretty much, not really the medical industries fault. All that new technology for testing and tools isn't cheap.