He said (I'm paraphrasing) that the problem with universal health care is that there aren't enough doctors and hospitals to accommodate the 50 million uninsured people in the United States suddenly entering the system
o.O ?
Do they not understand that these people get emergency healthcare/hospitalized medicine now? It may be in an indigent hospital but when people are dying we treat them they don't cease to exist (unless we kill them... which is one of the problems). The problem with this is that it's an insane way to do things. Many things could be better treated and cost a hell of a lot less if they had access to healthcare prior to being in such bad condition that they wind up in an emergency or if they were capable of getting care somewhere other than in a hospital emergency room.
That's where people are nuts. In a way we have 'universal' healthcare now insofar as if you're dying you're treated. We just jack up the prices on everyone's insurance to pay for the uninsured. What we need in universal insurance because the way that payment is provede now is more than a little...well... nuts.
*sigh* But, hell, they had that whole group of Texans that want to secede.
Yeah, that too. Simply put, having everyone covered will cost considerably less than adding what we pay per person now and multiplying it times 50 million more.
It won't be free. But it will bring the cost per person, spread out over all of us, down.
o.O ?
Do they not understand that these people get emergency healthcare/hospitalized medicine now? It may be in an indigent hospital but when people are dying we treat them they don't cease to exist (unless we kill them... which is one of the problems). The problem with this is that it's an insane way to do things. Many things could be better treated and cost a hell of a lot less if they had access to healthcare prior to being in such bad condition that they wind up in an emergency or if they were capable of getting care somewhere other than in a hospital emergency room.
That's where people are nuts. In a way we have 'universal' healthcare now insofar as if you're dying you're treated. We just jack up the prices on everyone's insurance to pay for the uninsured. What we need in universal insurance because the way that payment is provede now is more than a little...well... nuts.
*sigh* But, hell, they had that whole group of Texans that want to secede.
Wish we could cure stupid.
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It won't be free. But it will bring the cost per person, spread out over all of us, down.
It will make the system more efficient.
And it's simply the right thing to do.
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And sorry for the nutty spelling and stuff in my previous post. I was dog tired and heading to bed. :)
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