[quote=SDEngineer]
However, the study does make one thing crystal clear – a socialized healthcare system will not by its very nature destroy the quality of healthcare in the U.S., despite what the private insurance companies (profits up nearly 500% over the past 10 years, as mergers and aquisitions have reduced the number of major players to less than 10 major insurors) are claiming in the mass media. Clearly, socialized medicine is capable of working, and working at a quality level at least as good as what our completly privatized system does today – and at a substantial savings.[/quote]
Like I’ve said in earlier post, I think the truth is somewhere between the two extreme. It’s not Utopia like some would like us to believe and it won’t kill health care like others like us to believe. I’m fine with private/public system that compete with each other to provide us a service. Kind of like the shipping system we have today. Although we have USPS, we still have FedEx and UPS. They all have their place and they all are competing for our shipping business. Mailing letter is defaulted to USPS, but all other shipping needs, we have choices. One thing I hope they won’t do is taxing me (the employee) if my employer decide to offer me a killer health benefit plan.
