What’s wrong with the Medicare system – its track record, and my experience with my elderly parents and in-laws has been really good. Just expand the Medicare system to cover everybody. Plus, when everybody is covered – including our elected representatives, and all those who have been lucky enough to experience the good in our medical system, you can bet that medical service will not suffer. Why compare a universal health care system with public schools, the better comparison would be to compare it to the already in existence universal model.
To say that you fear our medical system will become corrupted sounds like you don’t think the current system is corrupted. There are so many levels of payment for the same treatment, it’s about time so ultimate authority figures this out.
I believe that if something isn’t done our medical system will be the loser because international medical/dental care is catching on quick – more and more people will “outsource” their medical care. The word is out that you can get better care for less money in many cases already.
Medical care should not compete in a capatalist system because the economic model is… the bigger the damand, the bigger the price, the bigger the profit. But in our medical care system it works like this: the bigger the demand, the bigger the price, but the lesser the profit.
Also, in a universal (single payer – government) system the government will have an incentive to finally get behind serious “public health” policies – like the Dr. in England making bonus pay for getting his patients healthy.
