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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: i-node who wrote (6498)	3/25/2009 12:10:28 PM
From: Road Walker	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 42652

As gg pointed out, you are going to have to get rid of some of those life-flight choppers. You are going to have to make hard calls on chemo that only marginally extends people's lives. You are going to have fewer Level I Trauma Centers. You are going to have lines at CT scanners and longer lines at MRI centers. You are going to have to reduce fixed costs by closing down hospitals. You are going to have to say, "Yes, it is fine with us if the most brilliant minds in America choose engineering rather than medicine because the pay is too low." Some people are going to die because instead of Zoloft they're taking Prozac. For the sake of discussion, let's say you are right on all those things. (Although they are not true in many other national health care systems). Don't you think those things will start happening anyway when the health system is consuming 25% of GDP? I think one thing most people can agree to on this thread is that the current path is economically impossible to maintain. It's going to change, it has to change, one way or another.

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