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I asked a question recently and was given this website as justification:

http://www.healthcare-now.org/hr676.html

It states that limits will be placed on pay outs for operations. How do you determine these limits? Will this not drive down the amount of care recieved as hospitals cut corners to save cash?

2007-07-17 09:40:33 · 10 answers · asked by JonB 5 in Politics & Government Government

10 answers

In the free market, when there's a shortage of doctors, nurses or medical supplies, costs go up for you and me. Under socialized medicine, the costs can't go up for the recipients of care. Instead, the medical community has to wait with their hands out for budget increases. And even a budget increase doesn't necessarily guarantee that enough money will be allotted to a particular hospital desperately in need of an increase in funds.

As you can imagine, the result is rationing. Waiting lines begin for even minor treatments, shortages are a problem, and many patients are prevented from accessing new treatments because they're simply too expensive. The only positive part of a socialized system is that it's "universal," but even this lofty goal ends up failing miserably when patients have to wait three months or more for a knee surgery.

The free market system does not concern itself with universality, but there are no shortages. There are no waiting lines to speak of, really. The ability of doctors to raise costs and patients to pay those costs dictates the price and the level of care. For example, if I had one million dollars and a bad hip, I could hire the best doctor in the world and receive the newest experimental treatments. While some people see this as unfair because it's unequal, it just proves that quality increases when there's an incentive and a demand.

Socialized medicine isn't immune from market principles. Instead, it tries to fit the market around a social agenda, ignoring the market principles that govern everyday life, and we can see the effects. Soviet-style shortages.

2007-07-17 09:53:08 · answer #1 · answered by TheOrange Evil 7 · 2 0

If you ask Doctors and Hospital Administrators where the major health care costs are, they will tell you that it is in the extra testing they have to do in the ER to avoid law suites, and the end of life care when the results will be the same. So guess what will be cut first. If doctors cannot make enough money to cover the costs of getting their education you will end up with second rate doctors. Look at other countries around the world, these are where they cut first.

2007-07-17 09:48:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

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2016-10-08 22:47:16 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

How does anybody know what will and won't be happening with universal health care? We haven't had it as a possibility yet! I think those that are afraid of change in the health care system are the ones putting out such garbage. We have 50,000,000 people in America right now without health insurance. That is pathetic and totally unacceptable for this citizen!

2007-07-17 09:45:33 · answer #4 · answered by Mary W 4 · 0 3

It will create long lines and waiting lists, just like in Canada.

This is a good policy to help bring about The Collapse that much sooner.

2007-07-17 09:44:55 · answer #5 · answered by mikeburns55 5 · 4 0

Probably not. Doctors will go private to avoid the beauracratic red tape BS. You'll still have to carry insurance to get good healthcare.

If you were on trial for murder, would you want the public defender?

2007-07-17 09:44:44 · answer #6 · answered by civil_av8r 7 · 3 0

No the care will not be the same. For millions it will give the freedom of better health.

2007-07-20 18:54:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Yikes, did you see the part about anyone can receive it, not only Americans.

You dont have to have a SS# to get a medical ID card, all you have to do is go sign up.

2007-07-17 09:44:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Its already done....both medicace and the private insurers place limits on pay outs...its been that way for decades.

2007-07-17 09:45:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

No. We will not recieve the same care.

2007-07-17 10:14:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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