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What is the Best Healthcare System and Why?
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<blockquote data-quote="WolfGate" data-source="post: 74753314" data-attributes="member: 74360"><p>Access is a big positive in the US. Cost is a huge negative. Equity is a huge negative - meaning the same care costs different people vastly different amounts. That inequity tends to hit the working lower class and the lower middle class the hardest, not only do they have less money to pay for healthcare but as a group it costs them more. Overall, due to a variety of reasons, we pay more and get poorer results than most of the other developed countries.</p><p></p><p>The best system would provide a solid level of guaranteed service to everyone while also allowing flexibility for people to either pay for or buy supplemental insurance to pay for services that are not part of the level of service. I don't really care who administers it. IMHO, that type of plan levels the economic playing field and allows everyone to pursue success in a capitalist society.</p><p></p><p>Yeah, for someone who is generally conservative politically, I'm a bit of an outlier here. I view health care in the same bucket I do police/fire protection, etc. Basic services that allow people to then fairly compete in the marketplace. And I have to believe given the efficiency data from other countries that a well structured plan would overall cost our population less than what we are paying now - so I consider it fiscally conservative as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WolfGate, post: 74753314, member: 74360"] Access is a big positive in the US. Cost is a huge negative. Equity is a huge negative - meaning the same care costs different people vastly different amounts. That inequity tends to hit the working lower class and the lower middle class the hardest, not only do they have less money to pay for healthcare but as a group it costs them more. Overall, due to a variety of reasons, we pay more and get poorer results than most of the other developed countries. The best system would provide a solid level of guaranteed service to everyone while also allowing flexibility for people to either pay for or buy supplemental insurance to pay for services that are not part of the level of service. I don't really care who administers it. IMHO, that type of plan levels the economic playing field and allows everyone to pursue success in a capitalist society. Yeah, for someone who is generally conservative politically, I'm a bit of an outlier here. I view health care in the same bucket I do police/fire protection, etc. Basic services that allow people to then fairly compete in the marketplace. And I have to believe given the efficiency data from other countries that a well structured plan would overall cost our population less than what we are paying now - so I consider it fiscally conservative as well. [/QUOTE]
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