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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Katelew who wrote (3967)1/17/2008 5:54:29 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
You and others on this thread keep referring to socialized medicine when NO ONE is suggesting this be the approach to healthcare in this country.

There are several people on this thread advocating nationalizing the health insurance industry. That is, indeed, an element of socialized medicine. Also posters are advocating the systems practiced abroad, generally, which have a range including Britain's fully socialized medicine.

You guys conflate all kinds of issues and overcomplicate a very simple debate.

I'm not conflating anything, just trying to not use so many words. We struggled with labels for a while on this thread. It gets really complicated if you have to specify which flavor in each posts, so I just started using "socialized medicine" as a simplified way of talking about the array of nationalization options. I assure you that I know the difference between Britain's system and Canada's. I'm just trying to simplify the discussion, although I can see why that might not be apparent.

As a capitalist, I also like a single-payer system because it is a substantially cheaper system...about 30% cheaper.

As much as advocates may repeat the mantra, that has not been demonstrated. Maybe it is and maybe it isn't cheaper. We don't know. I get tired of people repeating as fact that which is superficially suggestive.
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