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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: TimF who wrote (24551)8/20/2012 11:58:26 AM
From: Peter Dierks2 Recommendations   of 42652
 
... across the country, fewer than half of primary care clinicians were accepting new Medicaid patients as of 2008, making it hard for the poor to find care even when they are eligible for Medicaid. The expansion of Medicaid accounts for more than one-third of the overall growth in coverage in President Obama’s health care law.
But isn’t the important thing that they’ll have a piece of paper that says “health insurance”?

Like Rwanda, and Great Britain (etc.) the United States will suffer from medical personnel shortages if the march toward socialized medicine continues. As much as it might make people feel good to be able to say they have insurance, the poor quality of care will leave them just as bad off as if they had no insurance.

Sure they may get hooked to a great number of antiquated machines, but lacking the payment system for advancing medical care there will be many fewer medical advances. People who would have gone to medical school will choose more lucrative careers. More people will be treated by less qualified medical staff, resulting in greater numbers of missed opportunities for early detection.
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