Kasz216 on 11 March 2009
| akuma587 said: No, I do think the U.S. develops a lot of great medical technologies. But what do insurance companies have anything to do with that? They shortchange the people who actually provide services and make discoveries all the time. I am all for going to a single-payer system for efficiency's sake. You don't have to convince me bureaucracy is a problem. Obama is trying to move us towards a single-payer system, although he is taking it one step at a time. America isn't quite at the point where it will accept a complete governmental takeover of the healthcare system. Get rid of insurance companies completely if you ask me. They are a middle man who provide no real service. |
That's what socialized healthcare does more... shortchange those people even more. The government as one base as you want it will be able to negotiate cheaper prices from the providers of medical products and technology.... since it's them or no one basically... as such, less people will fund these companies because the money just won't be in it anymore... and less people will be interested in doing the reasearch because it won't pay as well.
