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Originally Posted by JurisDictum
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Its pretty simple debate.
One side says: look at how it works well all over the world. Its cheaper with same health outcomes and everyone gets covered. No country wants our system after all.
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"Cheaper" is the operative word here, because it won't be cheaper here in the US. Our health care is ridiculously expensive and the costs are held hostage by the pharmaceutical industry and health care professionals making an incredibly high income charging astronomically enormous fees (the ones that aren't are your friendly neighborhood family practice doctors).
The cost of health care will not be reduced to reasonable levels by insuring everyone. I don't know why people think it will. All that insuring everyone does is ensure the insurance companies remain profitable and doctors, hospitals and big pharma continue to make big bucks.
(I'm aware there are doctors and hospitals that are exceptions and don't make big bucks so no need to mention them. Those hospitals also tend to suck and you wouldn't want to be treated there.)
Until health care isn't a major business it will continue to be prohibitively expensive. Until doctors aren't interested in becoming incredibly high paid specialists that extort insurance companies almost criminally with their fees, until medical malpractice lawsuits are reined in, until hospitals aren't primarily interested in turning hefty profits, until big pharma is more interested in the quality of human life over making huge profits, we will have overly expensive health care in this country.
I've had people from Canada tell me if you want to make good money in the health care industry in their country, you don't become a doctor you become a dentist. I don't know how true that is but I can imagine their doctors don't make anywhere near the money ours do. Again, not talking about the local friendly family doctor, I'm talking specialists in the big hospitals.