| spaceguy said: So really single pay is the best option. |
Eh, would you really trust this government with single payer?
They'd be promising back and forth to raise rates to win the Doctor Vote.
Not to mention, the US is the last "Late great" profit zone for people developing new medicines and new machines.
Despite the fact that the EU is a bigger economy (Or was, not sure now...) They only spend a fraction of what our government spends on healthcare research... let alone our markets in general... which spend way more then our government. To compare a few nations.
for something longer... (bit old, but nothings changed.)
That's not even counting the fact that our private sector speds 2-3 times that.
If someone can come up with a way to replace 100 billion dollars worth of biomedical spending a year and NOT Make it one of the first cuts like in basically every other country... cool.
Right now though, it feel more like wondering how much farther along medical technology would be if everyone had a healthcare system like the US... and how much better off most people would be.
It's just way too each to cut medical funding and kill two birds with one stone.
Socalized medicine seems slow to invent, and slower to adopt new technology.
