Cash for Clunkers, and Healthcare.

[ManusJustus]

TheRealMafoo said:

ManusJustus said:

TheRealMafoo said:

The only reason we are even looking to the government to run healthcare, is the cost. As far as services, we are the best in the world.

Quality comes at a price, and efficiency is determined by getting more quality for less cost.  You can argue that America has better healthcare than the United Kingdom, but America pays three times as much for healthcare than the UK, and I have trouble envisioning the UK doubling their healthcare funding (twice as many doctors, nurces, hospitals, etc.) and not having better healthcare than America.

But the UK can't triple it, because they don't have enough money.

So what do you want to have happen in the US? If the government takes it over, one of two things will happen. It will cost more, or we will get a whole lot less care.

Both of those statements dont make sense to me.  First of all, the UK can increase how much it spends on healthcare, and the result would be more quality.  Secondly, you have no basis for why it would cost more in the US when all the evidence suggests otherwise.

Happy Squirrel,

America does have the best quality system, the problem is that we aren't getting enough bang for our buck.  We have a 66% cancer rate and countries that pay half as much as we do have a 50% chance, so obviously that would increase if other countries matched America's spending. 

Of course, numerousfactors (including the fact that American culture promotes obesity) go into healthcare costs, and since countries are so different from one another you can only make weak comparisons about the big picture.