The folly is that Obama keeps talking as if the health care system in impotent.
Obama is scaring people to believe it is all falling apart, when just the government end is falling apart,
Like this guy, most people are happy with what they have.
Canada and austrialia have only 20 million people. Equal to metro New York city.
Much less complicated to pay for a health system for 20 million then for 350 million.
An ER needs 24/7 infrastructure and many doctorâs to handle many people with life threatening injuries.
A doctorâs office needs only a receptionists. Its all overhead.
In Chicago Walgreenâs and Wal-Mart stores are setting up little medical clinics run by nurses. They will treat colds...
Like usual the government probably overpaid for the program.
Once the first phase sold out overnight.
The Government could have lowered the freebie in half and still sold out.
I imagine the hourly cost to have state of the art 24/7 care in an emergency room must be at least $2,000 an hour.
..The solution is to go to a local medical clinic who can handle stitches.
If a local center could do it for $500 why not give half the savings to the patient...Health...
One negative is in new treatments, experimental treatments. these tend to be very expensive. In a government system the threshold will be higher before these can be tried.
With limits on Pharmaceuticals profits there will be less R&D into new medicines
What is a human? I say a Human is a being that has a civilization with functioning governments. A written language.. Farming, Domestication. A peoples who have the ability to learn from previous generations.
Before10,000 years ago this did not exist. Somehow this knowledge came to the humans...