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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gg cox who wrote (1968)	9/2/2007 3:19:24 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 42652

Because ""personal responsibility""might be a good thing to emulate ...if you are a Canadian.American too ...eh?? LOL. Ok. I'll wave a little flag for "personal responsibility." And another one for your deft side step. You know, we have to exercise that same personal responsibility and get a family doctor, too. I guess the difference is that it's easy to find one here. So we're really talking about level of effort, not degree of personal responsibility, it would seem. [I changed doctors recently. I had been seeing a boutique doctor and paying a premium for it because my insurance covered less than half of her charges, which was bearable, but I will be entering Medicare soon so I had to find a doctor who accepted Medicare patients. It was an easy switch. Got an appt with the new one the same week I called. Fewer doctors are taking Medicare patients so availability might become a problem here, too, but I intentionally selected a GP/Gerontologist. Gerontologists could hardly operate without accepting Medicare. <g>] I am trying to understand why some Americans seem to favor a system like the Canadian one. Certainly long wait times and lack of doctor availability isn't something a sane person would try to emulate. So my antennae are up searching for reasons why Canadians who have it like it and Americans who don't have it want it. The only argument I have heard so far is that there are no direct, out-of-pocket costs to the patient. Whether the indirect costs are more or less is not evident (and perhaps not taken into consideration). But it seems to be comforting to some to not have to carry a checkbook or credit card when visiting a doctor.