Something that I have noticed (and has been pointed out by many people) is that there has been a steady increase in cost and/or decrease in availability of all medical care regardless of whether it is government or insurance run system, with the exception of the three areas where governments and insurance companies have the least involvement; and those are vision care, dental care and plastic surgery. Regardless of the medical system, bureaucracy seems to be the number 1 cost associated with healthcare and the current healthcare bill only seems to add to the bureaucracy.
Personally, I believe that the Healthcare Insurance as a benefits system should be scrapped and it should return to being true catastrophic healthcare insurance (where you’re insuring yourself against the unlikely serious illness or injury); but if you wanted to continue with corporate or government healthcare benefits it should be transformed into a healthcare spending/savings account. In this kind of environment where patients are far more likely to be cost conscience you would likely see the kind of competition and options that are available in other industries.
