Actually sdnativeson we have a government program for medical care… It’s called Medicare. It has something like 2% administration costs – operates very efficiently. Our current system has about a 25-30% administration cost (pays for the Bentleys, etc. for the healthcare execs) – and it also delights in keeping our health care system below the other first world countries.
We could easily just add all the population to medicare. Almost all doctors take medicare and those who don’t can. Problem is that the healthcare companies have lobbyists. Medicare doesn’t.
Funny how you poke fun at ‘socialized medicine’ and a ‘bloated healthcare’ system… what we have now sucks, is anarchy, and is the reason that we are ranked 34th in the world for healthcare.
Luckily for me, I have a PPO, and a health savings plan which pays pre-tax money for my deductables, non-covered, ect. Unfortunately for the rest of America, the ones with HMO’s which deny everything, etc.
I liked some of your comments previously, but you have just parroted what the healthcare cartel has sold you…. All while supporting one of the worst health care systems.
By the way – don’t try going to an emergency room. It is filled with all the uninsured. If you do go (because it’s an emergency – or that the US healthcare system is only Mon-Fri 9am-4:30pm – oh and by the way your doctor can’t see you for 11 days (unless you are in big trouble) – oh yeah and you should go to an emergency room if you need an appointment that badly, good luck to you!
It’s a shame that our system is the laughingstock of the rest of the world….
