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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (8840)8/29/2009 6:48:01 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Insisting the terms of policies be met isn't what I consider rationing at all.

I agree. It's the setting of the terms of the policies that involve rationing. A very simple example would be that the policy allows lipid blood tests twice a year or a physical only once a year. That's rationing. Once the terms are set, monitoring to meet them is not rationing but rather enforcing the contract.

The experience of countries like Britain or Canada are evidence.

There aren't private insurers there to compare against so there are no data we can use. Perhaps you are comparing Britain's government vs American private insurance but that's apples and oranges.

So you think American health care can't be eroded because the people just won't put up with it?

I don't think that an American government provider catering to the same clientele as a private insurer, the public plan, for example, could ration appreciably more, no. If it did, then people would opt for the private plans and, were the difference too great, public opinion would force the public plan into conformity. The net result would be more or less equal degrees of rationing.

Do you think the cultural differences between the US and Canada will insure we can't develop the same waiting periods here?

Again, Canada has no private insurance plan with which to compare, only the government one. If private alternatives were legal in Canada, then the two would end up more or less the same.

Comparing Canada against the US is another topic.
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