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

To: gg cox who wrote (24055)	7/4/2012 3:09:35 PM
From: skinowski	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

any colleague friends in socialized medicine countries? None currently, but I've met many over the years. They all make do; in all countries their respective healthcare systems fulfil their role in society. Interestingly, the way their docs get paid - and their general job satisfaction - seem to be proportional to the degree to which their country is affluent. For example, docs in the former USSR or Poland got paid very poorly. Otoh, Scandinavians seem to get paid similarly to the docs in the US. Generally, I believe, the situation is similar with the Canadian docs. I am not a believer that taking steps towards socialism is the end of the world. It's just the end of the world as WE know it (-g). The US, from the very beginning, was centered around the rights of an individual, including the right to screw up - and limited government. It worked beautifully, and for a long time... until recently, anyway. As I've said many times, IMO American politicians do not know... one part of their anatomy from another... when it comes to creating a national system. They are not accustomed to think in national and historic terms, but just in terms of getting reelected. Thats the way our system is. They'll fight and argue - and each will make the best deals they can... to bring home the bacon... and they'll make a huge mess. I have no doubts about that. IMHO, the best way to go is to have a taxpayer supported cheap but functional healthcare safety net for those who can't pay -- AND deregulate the private sector to the max. Let market forces decide what works best for whom. I think this would work better along the lines of the American principles, history - and national character.