Quoted from ralphwiggum:
Before the ACA, I know several people that were unable to buy health insurance because no health insurance would sell to them for their pre-existing conditions. The ones that would sell to them quoted rates so high, it wasn't do-able for anyone. I really don't think that is really a functional solution.
Reform is needed, but nationalizing healthcare is not the answer. That just makes it worse.
Death panels for one example, long waiting times for another.
Britain:
"British Medical Journal released a damning report that all NHS hospitals had implemented "a palliative care protocol" known as Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP). The protocol is used on many sick babies and the elderly when the NHS deems them unsavable, even in cases like Alfie where alternative treatment was available."
"There are around 450,000 deaths in Britain each year of people who are in hospital or under NHS care. Around 29 per cent – 130,000 – are of patients who were on the LCP."
Canada:
Waiting for treatment has become a defining characteristic of Canadian health care. In order to document the lengthy queues for visits to specialists and for diagnostic and surgical procedures in the country, the Fraser Institute has—for over two decades—surveyed specialist physicians across 12 specialties and 10 provinces.
This edition of Waiting Your Turn indicates that, overall, waiting times for medically necessary treatment have in-creased since last year. Specialist physicians surveyed report a median waiting time of 21.2 weeks between referral from a general practitioner and receipt of treatment—longer than the wait of 20.0 weeks reported in 2016. This year’s wait time—the longest ever recorded in this survey’s history—is 128% longer than in 1993, when it was just 9.3 weeks.
Patients also experience significant waiting times for various diagnostic technologies across the provinces. This year, Canadians could expect to wait 4.1 weeks for a computed tomography (CT) scan, 10.8 weeks for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, and 3.9 weeks for an ultrasound.
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I have zero use or interest in "free healthcare" having worked in the US system for over a decade the problems will just get worse as they did when the government put Obamacare in place.
Stop the goverment micro-managment, institute tort reform and rein in the lawyers and you will see the costs go down.
Having a look at the pharmaceutical companies would be of great benefit too. Lot of money thrown around by them so they are NOT looked at, one has to wonder why.