Re:Why Did My Patient Leave Me?
by ThomPete on Monday April 17, 2017 @06:37AM
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I am sure you don't notice it yourself but you are basically trying to argue through painting things into extremes.
It's either socialist or Laise-Faire, Switzerland is heavly regulated, Public boards are based on rationality, private boards are based on greed alone.
No a taxpayer paid healthcare system does not make it a socialist system anymore than a taxpayer police force or army does. And the US system isn't laissez faire just because it's broken in many ways. Most economies are mixed economies.
So I am not sure what you are trying to prove here. The fact remains that public healthcare has it's own issues regardless of whether you personally think they are better issues to have and any honest dive into those the countries systems will show you that. You can't both have your cake and eat it. Switzerland is heavy regulated you claim (which is wrong) but they pay twice the GDP for about the same outcome. So what is it? A system governed by the state, a system that's private or something in between? With regards to Germany most of their insurance is covered by public healthcare 80% if not more. So why is that?
Furthermore the US is a huge country with hundreds of millions of citizens and millions of illegal immigrants and spread out over a huge area. Based on it's circumstances it's not doing too shabby regardless of the statistics.
It's just not as simply as you would like to paint it in those extreme corners.
There is an interesting discussion around Medicaid vs. private insurance in the US you can read about here:
It's either socialist or Laise-Faire, Switzerland is heavly regulated, Public boards are based on rationality, private boards are based on greed alone.
No a taxpayer paid healthcare system does not make it a socialist system anymore than a taxpayer police force or army does. And the US system isn't laissez faire just because it's broken in many ways. Most economies are mixed economies.
So I am not sure what you are trying to prove here. The fact remains that public healthcare has it's own issues regardless of whether you personally think they are better issues to have and any honest dive into those the countries systems will show you that. You can't both have your cake and eat it. Switzerland is heavy regulated you claim (which is wrong) but they pay twice the GDP for about the same outcome. So what is it? A system governed by the state, a system that's private or something in between? With regards to Germany most of their insurance is covered by public healthcare 80% if not more. So why is that?
Furthermore the US is a huge country with hundreds of millions of citizens and millions of illegal immigrants and spread out over a huge area. Based on it's circumstances it's not doing too shabby regardless of the statistics.
It's just not as simply as you would like to paint it in those extreme corners.
There is an interesting discussion around Medicaid vs. private insurance in the US you can read about here:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2014/08/14/no-really...
My point was never to say one thing was better than the other yet thats what we are really discussing here.
My point was that there are tradeoffs in both systems.