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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (3738)	1/11/2008 1:49:21 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 42652

It is the exact thing that you advocates of unfettered government management of medicine... Peter, quit with the straw man stuff.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (3738)	1/11/2008 2:05:57 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 42652

Socialized medicine is a system where the govt. is involved in everything. Govt.pays for all benefits, govt. owns the physical hospitals and clinics, and govt. hires and trains doctors and other medical personnel. The UK and Canada are examples. Most other industrialized countries and many developing nations are following a different model. It is a single-payer system, meaning the Govt. acts as the insurer. There are no private health insurance companies. All the other players are part of the private market, i.e. docs, clinics, ambulance services, etc. Pharma companies are private and capitalist publicly traded entities, such as Roche. The distinctions between socialized medicine and a single-payer system are important and should be clearly understood when having a discussion. Single-payer systems appear to be producing better results, and I would argue are much better suited for US.