How easily accessible would Government Healthcare really be?

Question

I know that I have waited tirelessly in many government lines, to include but not limited to, the DMV and U.S. passport (etc.), but what would make government provided healthcare any quicker? Can you imagine waiting months to see a doctor, when before it was just weeks? Right now, it's basically on an appointment basis, but what if you were waiting on a first come first serve basis and that basis included every American citizen.

For example:

A whopping 74 percent of Canadians were concerned about long waits for access to emergency room services, while seven percent said they or a member of their household had suffered deteriorating medical conditions as a result of delays in access for care over the past year. Two percent of Canadians actually reported that a member of their household had died waiting for health care.

The estimated number of Canadians waiting for medical care also rose from 840,358 in 1999 to 878,008 in 2000-01, or over 2.85% of the total Canadian population of 30.8 million. To put these figures into perspective, if the U.S. had the same health system as Canada almost7.9 million Americans would be waiting for treatment.

How would our health care be better if it was provided by the government?

Answer 1

It would not be better, it would be many times worse. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and the super-highway to hell is paved with good intentioned public policy. That ignores the realities of life and the inefficiencies of ANY government program.

Answer 2

Try being told that you can't get government health care unless your terminally ill and the fact you have type one diabetes doesn't fall in to terminally ill. I hope they can tell my kids that when I have to go on dialysis and I'm blind with no feeling in my feet.