I find it amazing people say socialized healthcare is better, when life expectancy in the US is the same, and infant mortality is much lower in the US than the UK.
HC costs need to be brought down, but I can assure you that socializing medicine WILL ruin the system.
One of the major issues with the US healthcare system is the tragic understaffing at hospitals by qualified nurses and doctors. This drives up healthcare costs, as they become in more demand, and hospitals/practices give more financial incentives to join their staff (which drives up the cost of said healthcare).
I want to ask this question of everyone that wants to socialize US healthcare: How can we pay for every person to see a doctor, when there's no doctor to see?
Ironically, Ron Paul (a doctor) has the best solution: Allow RNs a greater degree of freedom in medicine. If they were allowed to diagnose and perscribe routine medicines for patients, you'd free up many, MANY doctors for doing what they were designed to: fix the major problems in surgeries, and as specialists.
I worked in the medical field in Ohio for the year as a transportation officer. I traveled to 100 medical facilities in Ohio. I can assure you that, given their current workloads, socialized medicine would virtually ruin healthcare. If anyone wants to provide an opposing view, please provide valid arguments on how it'll work, because it can't.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
