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re: 'Universal' health care will NEVER work
Posted on 3/31/17 at 9:53 am to Cocotheape
Posted on 3/31/17 at 9:53 am to Cocotheape
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Because surgeries that are life or death are not delayed? You may have to wait 6 months for a knee replacement but if yiu need an emergency surgery it is handled immediately, no different than the de facto socialized emergency room care we have
So the poor are already getting those surgeries? Why do we need the change?
Waiting six months for a knee replacement, in line behind people who don't work, seems pretty awful to me. Does it not seem that way to you?
The perverse incentives are pretty hard to miss.
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Posted on 3/31/17 at 10:00 am to uway
Because the emergency room model is incredibly expensive and inefficient? A bad deal for everyone wealthy or otherwise. Bad for business, too.
I personally don't have a problem waiting six months for non essential surgery, or have the option of going the private route on my own to have the surgery expedited, if that system produces better or the same results for less public and private healthcare spending. I'm fiscally conservative like that though.
If you want to argue the US government specifically cannot effectively run UHC that's a line of argument I am open to. Saying that it doesn't work elsewhere though is fantasy.
I personally don't have a problem waiting six months for non essential surgery, or have the option of going the private route on my own to have the surgery expedited, if that system produces better or the same results for less public and private healthcare spending. I'm fiscally conservative like that though.
If you want to argue the US government specifically cannot effectively run UHC that's a line of argument I am open to. Saying that it doesn't work elsewhere though is fantasy.
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