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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: average joe who wrote (8087)	8/8/2009 8:02:00 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) of 42652

>> As soon as you adopt our system both systems will collapse. I think it will affect health care around the world -- which some could legitimately argue the rest of the world ought to have to pay for. But if a country is to consider itself a leader in the world, wouldn't medicine be one of the places it ought to lead in? I just don't see a way that the US can shut down other nation's access our medical advances without shooting ourselves in the foot. There may be some way, but I can't see what it is. But would we want to do it anyway? The favorite talking point of the pro-reform forces is that we're spending 16% of GDP. SO WHAT? That money is at least staying in this country. Consider that so much of what we spend goes to Japan to buy cars or China to buy junk or India to buy engineering talent or wherever. While "medical tourism" is happening, the numbers are exceedingly small. It is one thing that we continue to do better than everyone else. The Left has killed our industry with unions. Do they really need to kill our medicine, too?

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