Socialized Health Care?

Question

What will happen if we end up with Socialized Health Care?

Answer 1

If the U.S. decides to adopt a universal healthcare system, the following will definitely happen:
- All American citizens will have full and equal access to all types of healthcare (not just emergency rooms, as is currently the case)

Conservatives believe the following will happen:
- The quality of healthcare will go down because government bureaucracy will create more inefficiencies in the healthcare system
- A "single-payer" government healthcare system is effectively a monopoly and as such will have no incentive to provide better care as would be the case in a competitive free market for health insurance
- People will have to wait longer for various operations due to "rationing"
- A national healthcare system would entail huge tax increases that would hurt the economy and worsen the already enormous deficit

Liberals believe the following will happen:
- Healthcare costs will actually go DOWN because so much of private insurers' costs pertain to marketing and public relations. A single-payer system would not need to do any marketing because it would have no competitors. People holding this view often point out that Medicare and Medicaid have significantly lower overhead costs than most private insurers
- Public healthcare would actually make the U.S. economy more competitive because no businesses would have to provide health insurance to their workers and labor costs would go down as a result

Answer 2

If it's done in the same way that England, Canada and France have used it for example, it'll be the best thing that has happened to this nation since it's inception.

The Health Insurance companies that pay off politicians to vote favorably for the insurance tinged political policies in this nation are crooked, corrupt, and money hungry.

Socialized medicine in Europe is flawless, same with Canada. Most Americans think otherwise, because we're taught otherwise. Any person with 2 brain cells operable enough to do some clinical research will find out that "fact" is in fact a lie.

In the UK for example, whether you're buying medication for the common cold, or medicine to treat HIV infection...it's 6 pounds, 65 pence. Whether it be 30, 60, or 120 of the medication itself....taxes and the NHS (National Health Service) are what pay for the medication through it's Social Medicinal Programs.

Now, let's compare that to the US....where HIV medication is generally in the several hundreds of dollars for a whopping...what, 10 maybe 20 pills? What a crock....no wonder there are so many people in this nation that have never once recieved treatment. Not only are the pills dramatically overpriced, but most Insurance companies will blacklist you if you are infected in the first place. Lord knows, they'll do the same for much less of an issue.

It's a shame, when in Socialized Medicinal System nations they can gets cancer and AIDS medications for the same price that an American has to pay for Childrens Triaminic.

Not a shame for them, but a shame for us.

This is one of the bigger reasons why I'm moving to Europe in the next several years.

Answer 3

Under a system of socialized health care, we will likely spend a much smaller share of our national income on health care. The US spends about 15% of our national income on health care. In contrast, the socialized system in the UK spends about half as much. Why?

One explanation is there is little incentive for the US system to reduce costs. Individuals don't care about cost since it is paid for by insurance. Doctors certainly don't care care about cost because it might reduce their income or they will be sued for malpractice unless they use every test and procedure available.

A second explanation is that the UK system provides inferior health care. There is some truth to this in the sense that sick people may have to wait for treatment if the treatment can be postponed. For example, an individual may have to wait years for a hip replacement because it is not life threatening. In the meantime, the individual may die of something else and thus avoid the cost of the hip replacement.

A third explanation is that the payment system in the US is complicated and costly to administer. In the UK, there is no payment system because everything is provided free by the government.

A fourth explanation is that the US government heavily subsidizes health care though most people don't realize this. If something is subsidized, people will use more of it. The subsidy results from the fact that employer provided health insurance is not included as part of the employees taxable income. If the employer provided a car or housing for the employee, the employee would have to pay taxes on this income, but this is not the case for health insurance.

Answer 4

Nice one..

If there is socialized health care, then:

1) There will be socialized doctors, hospitals, socialized instruments, and socialized treatment and attention.
2) The bill of rights and social justice provisions in the Constitution will have to be scrapped out.
3) Hospitals would lose patients or suffer loss of quality. For the upper end, doctors would be scared easily that their patients can sue them for malpractice and they would hesitate in all things even if it is beneficial to their patients. For the lower end, doctors would be too much burdened with the bulk of their patients (which is actually the majority of the population), and quality would slide down.

Answer 5

Why "end up"? The U.S. already has two "socialized" (the correct term, in my opinion, is "publicly funded") healthcare systems: Medicare (which is a single-payer system) and the Veterans Administration (which is a direct-provision system). Depending on which route, if any, is chosen to "socialize" healthcare in the U.S., the U.S. healthcare will look either like Medicare or like the VA...

Answer 6

hi, I stay in England so i've got have been given some issues to declare in this occasion. you're speaking approximately national healthcare platforms, genuine? Ours is the NHS (national well being provider) and inspite of the fact that folk ***** lots, we'd be in lots worse shape without it. we could desire to constantly pay extra taxes by way of fact of it, even though it is actual properly worth it. as quickly as we could desire to work out a doctor, it could sometimes take over each week, yet most of the time it takes a pair of days, and there is often somebody obtainable the comparable day if it is somewhat important. Operation waiting lists are long- over a 300 and sixty 5 days- for issues like man made hips and knees, yet it fairly is using the fact people who've maximum cancers or heart issues get precedence, on the grounds that they could desire to have their operations performed as quickly as achievable so as that they do no longer die. i think the NHS isn't entirely socialised, by way of fact human beings do could desire to pay for prescriptions, yet it is the only element you pay for. it is likewise merely working adults that ahve to pay- previous human beings, toddlers and extremely destructive human beings do no longer could desire to pay, and you do no longer could desire to pay for the contraceptive pill or implant. the only element it is a topic interior the NHS is that there is a huge form of workplace work and the staff all get very drained and overworked, fantastically in accident and emergency (like the ER in US hospitals). sometimes which skill human beings make errors. it is nonetheless incredibly uncommon that issues bypass incorrect nevertheless. i do no longer comprehend anybody who had something bypass incorrect in well being middle. regularly drained team are merely incredibly grumpy and lose their bedside way.

Answer 7

Don't expect health care at all. Gone will be the days of good medical practice and god forbid should you need to see a doctor or have surgery...you'll be dead before you get there. Socialized medicine has yet to work. It should have been a dead horse years ago.