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Advantages and Disadvantages Of Universal Health Care
Posted by | Posted in Health | Posted on 25-08-2010
What will national health care cost us and what will be get from it?
The price of the new health insurance and health care system will include increased taxes. In some ways, it won’t matter who those taxes are paid by. If they are paid by the companies, they will raise the price tags of the products they sell, so the individuals will be hurt as well. If they are paid by the consumer, then the consumer will have less to pay for items, so the companies will be hurt as well.
When we look at the cost of any medical care proposal, we should also look at the costs of the existing medical system to make comparisons. In today’s medical system, those of us who can pay for health care subsidize those who can’t or won’t. Your health insurance premiums are higher because your provider has to raise the rates for those who do pay to make up for those who don’t pay.
The costs of our existing medical system include the cost of lower productivity when a worker is unable to work because of a medical condition he or she can’t afford to treat. The costs of our present health care system include the price associated with more kids growing up without a mom or dad.
One of the benefits or the present day health care system is our familiarity with it. It’s like an old car that has a broken driver’s door and a big gash in the passenger seat. We’ve gotten used to getting in the car from the passenger side and having a blanket over the gash in the seat. Another car will have problems as well. The car may be better or worse. That part is unknown. What is known is that the car will be unfamiliar and buying a car is a big commitment.
Once we make major changes to our socialized medicine system we will be unlikely to go back to the old medical system. Even if the new medical system is decidedly worse, we will be stuck with it. We may have higher price tags or worse care. We may be able to tweak the new health insurance and health care system and fix it or we may determine that the infrastructure is so poor that it too requires an overhaul.
National health care has the potential of boosting our economy. Many people who are currently shackled to their employers because of the fear of losing their health insurance, may be able to move on to better jobs or start companies and hire others.
Under today’s health insurance and health care system many people are unable to pay for preventative care. They often wind up in the hospital and get expensive surgeries that they can’t afford to pay for. These surgeries may extend their lives, but may or may not allow them to work again. An individual who gets medical care when the problem is a small one may be able to work and pay taxes much longer than the individual who only gets care when the situation is critical.
We should strive to create a system that keeps our workers working longer and our parents parenting longer.
Although we may have a health insurance and health care system that is broken, there is no guarantee that a new health care system will be any less broken. However, far too many people are hurt by our existing health care system for us to just throw up our hands and do nothing. If we can ignore the rhetoric and focus on the facts a better health insurance and health care system can be created that will not only benefit those who can’t afford health care today, but will make us all stronger.
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The health care quality would most likely be lower.
The ability to get in to see your doctor would be less. It may take weeks or months to see the doctor you want to see.
The government would have more control over you and your life.
It's been that way in most other countries that have UHC.
@panzerfavst And further more, we should not only ban abortion but we should ban children from getting healthcare unless their parents are in the top 1% income bracket. It’s a waste of rich people’s money to invest in saving those little parasites who feed off of welfare like it’s a host. Now while they must die we can’t abort them because God would smite us for it. So, I propose that we put poor infants in dumpsters and let Jesus do the killing, slowly and methodically of course. Amen.
@ToothbrushMan There most certainly is rationing; it could not exist otherwise. Your argument rests on the tried and true “Americans are wrong” argument? Good one!
@mtb416
Um. I am simply pointing out that rationing is inevitable, whatever system you adopt. You can apply the rationing argument to finding a table at a restaurant – you still have to wait for a waiter to show you to a table. There is always a finite number of waiters.
@fywacia i dont fucking care about anyone elses health. lets talk economics here k? stossel is right, you need to pay for it your self. im going to pay through my life, i dont need some nanny govt doing anything for me
@fywacia You sound like such an indoctrinated lefty. I hear the top 1% goes out every Christmas with bats and go house to house, smashing the presents for middle-class children.
Kinda a long question, so I will answer some of these.
1. You can go the associates route, as these are all general lower division classes & general ed pre-reqs. But you will need to transfer to a university at some point.
2.Financial aid is too broad a category to speculate on. The FA is up to each individual university/college.
3. 1 in 50 get into medical school on the national average.
4. All upper division courses are tough, it depends on you however, as to what you will find the toughest. If you love math, then calculus will be a snap; if you don't then may be that one will be tough. You need upper division physics, calculus, bio chem, p-chem, quant analysis, bio, often embryology, histology, etc depending on major. Look at the course catalogs.
5. Not sure what you mean, enter a specialty before starting work. You learn a specialty in residency. You do not work until you finish residency (not counting the tremendous work you will do as a resident)
6. Volunteer at hospitals (the term volunteer means no pay)–but when? Pre-med??? Once you are accepted as a resident you are not a volunteer–you are paid to be a resident (although not a huge amount).
7. Generally to a certain degree–if you get a degree from a nth tier school you may not get into med school. But many many schools are good in CA. You need to look at their med school acceptance ratios.
8. You are trained as a resident–that is what residency is all about–it is formal training. That's why it is so long.
9. Too long a topic for right now–totally different switch in direction.
10. Yes. Why? Expense for one; time commitment for another. In your own practice you would have to be available 24/7 forever. Legal liability for another.
11. Huge question. Yes & significant impact. Explore this one all by itself.
12. Possible
13.Possibly. However, just waltzing into another country & wanting to set up shop because you want to is not as easy as it seems; nor is running an enterprise with out some form of funding. Better would be to join doctors without borders or some other international aid program; although US doctors are not welcome all over the world.
hes completely right europe is stupid we have superior care
interviewing doctors who will stop making as much money under the new system, and not even mentioning that, can not be considered good journalism
@panzerfavst Yep he’s right and the whole industrialized world is wrong. I’m going to go even more conservative than you, that’s why I propose “The Trickle Down Healthcare Plan”. You see only people who are in the top 1% income bracket should be legally allowed to get medical attention. That way the other 99% will eventually die out much faster than before which will eventually close the healthcare gap in America. It also gets rid of poverty, so it’s like killing two children with on stone.
Of course John Mackey knows what he is talking about and is rational, he’s a Texan.