Toro
Diamond Member
Sure, if you lower the quality of care. That's how they do it. You end up with crappy care.
Or, you end up with all the rich getting private insurance, while the poor end up dying on waiting lists.
Or, you end up with the system going broke, and there are several that are in desperate situations right now.
The best system is a Capitalist system. The more we move away from that, the more we have those same problems here.
No. My wife got great care. So did I when I broke my leg in the UK.
We have great health care in Aust and NZ. It is mainly public, but there is private too. The weird thing is, you pay for private and it doesn't even pay for the hospital visit. It's very weird and skewed towards the health industry making a profit. The UK system is okay as are most of the Scandinavian countries.
In one poll, 86% of Canadians wanted more socialized medicine rather than more private care.
New poll shows Canadians overwhelmingly support public health care
Having been in both systems, there are positives and negatives to each. If you are lower middle class or lower, you're probably better off with socialized medicine. If you are upper middle class or higher, you are probably better off with private medicine.
I don't think there will ever be a single-payer, socialized medical system in America in my lifetime.
But what most people don't know is that 43%-44% of American healthcare spending is through the government. It is 75% in Canada.