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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (1818)8/9/2007 9:50:09 AM
From: Peter Dierks   of 42652
 
Different people reach different conclusions from the same facts.
"I also know that doctors often ask me, in the middle of a consultation, "what kind of insurance do you have" before they propose something. Waste of their time to have to keep various plans sorted out."

This is evidence that the third party payer system is broken. If we were all responsible for our own bills the conversation would be different but similar. Most people would rather have a doctor present them with options for their health care rather than have them withhold treatment options based on the fact that a single payer government system had disallowed effective treatment.

Right now there is a crisis in eldercare because MediCare keeps costs down by arbitrary means. Many doctors won't take new medicare patients because they are unprofitable. A government single payer system would subject all patients to the same capricious government bureaucracy for treatment authorization.
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