Kasz216 said:
highwaystar101 said:
Kasz216 said:
jjseth said:
This!
The healthcare in the US is horrid. No, not the quality of care, but the ability of the people to get sufficient coverage. Go and ask your doctor and ask them what they think of the public option or a government based health care system. They will almost be in unanimous agreement that they would prefer a public option, and even more a Universal coverage that covers all people. How do I know this? I have family who are doctors and have worked for health care systems and know what they think on it.
It cannot be run like Medicare, and Medicare should be replaced by a Universal coverage plan. The overhead needs to be low, and it needs to be run and operated by highly intelligent business people that are able to figure out how to run it, without costing tax payers a huge sum of money to have it. Other countries around the world have better health coverage than the US does, and if the US is so dang good, why is our health care so horrible?
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clearly this is why up until recently the AMA has been against the public option.... and are currently only for a very token public option.
No most doctors actually DON'T want government run healthcare.
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I've heard many opinion polls taken on government run healthcare and it's always seemed to me that US doctors actually support a public healthcare system. In fact in 2008 in the journal 'annals of medicine' 59% of doctors supported a national healthcare service, this was up from 49% from the same poll taken 4 years before. Only 32% opposed it, down from 40% (Source). I have seen several polls similar results.
I will accept your ineviatable counter argument that 65% of doctors oppose the universal healthcare plan and rightly so, I agree. But the trend shows that the majority of doctors support a government run healthcare system or a hybrid system, they just don't support the government run healthcare system proposed.
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We already have a hybrid healthcare system.
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People can support a system already in place. I only mentioned hybrid system because it has components of government run healthcare.
