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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Road Walker who wrote (7756)	7/25/2009 1:35:54 PM
From: skinowski	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) of 42652

the cost of our current system is proof. Been thinking about this..... Everyone is comparing our healthcare to those of Britain, Canada, etc, keeps pointing out how they are more cost effective. Has anyone ever compared costs of malpractice systems? I'd venture a guess that no nation on earth supports such a super-expensive and super-elaborate medicolegal system as we do. We feed two huge legal industries - one on litigation side, and another one on the defence side. Both depend on each other, and both can be replaced - in the vast majority of cases - by arbitration. And yet, the very first thing that our "pro-reform" President announced is that he intends to leave the current system the way it is. Recall that the current malpractice system's costs go far beyond the costs of litigations and awards. The atmosphere of having to practice so called "defensive medicine" ends up being incredibly costly. Pass tort reform.... abolish ineffective and expensive regulators, like JCAH.... and, before long, maybe we'll be talking about a truly meaningful reform, not just another power grab by politicians.

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