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What??? Where on earth did that come from??? What UHC country had to buy up all their hospitals, clinics, and insurance companies as part of implementing their plan? You've gone goofy on this one...
Japan for example, where a lot of the hospitals are public now..
I respectfully disagree on the 2% statistic. The direct costs may only be 2%, but the indirect ones are likely staggering. Costs such as unnecessary regulations, huge increases in insurance causing a shortage in the OB/GYN specialty, etc.
Can you identify any of these regulations? Can you cite any data that support a relationship between malpractice cases and insurance premiums? I would suggest instead that medical insurance premiums vary inversely with both the stock market and the degree of competition in local insurance markets. I would suggest further that the number one factor contributing to increasing medical malpractice claims is increasing medical malpractice. A very good and dispassionate book about the matter is The Medical Malpractice Myth written by Prof. Tom Baker, who teaches law at the University of Connecticut.
What??? Where on earth did that come from??? What UHC country had to buy up all their hospitals, clinics, and insurance companies as part of implementing their plan? You've gone goofy on this one...
Let me offer this to mull: What other countries that now have a UHC, also had private, for profit, Health Insurance companies in place, when the government took over?
Same would go with Hospitals and Clinics.
But, here is the "Big One" for you to consider: Which of the other COUNTRIES you allude to have the same Constitution as the United States with the same requirements related to Eminent Domain?
Japan for example, where a lot of the hospitals are public now..
Do you ever actually answer a question asked? As in What UHC country had to buy up all their hospitals, clinics, and insurance companies as part of implementing their plan? As for hospitals in Japan, by the way, about 80% of them are private.
But, here is the "Big One" for you to consider: Which of the other COUNTRIES you allude to have the same Constitution as the United States with the same requirements related to Eminent Domain?
Perhaps you don't comprehend the question. Why would eminent domain or any other means or form of public acquisition of private property be any part of converting to a UHC plan? Can you actually believe that universal state ownership of medical facilities is a requirement for switching to a UHC plan?
Perhaps you don't comprehend the question. Why would eminent domain or any other means or form of public acquisition of private property be any part of converting to a UHC plan? Can you actually believe that universal state ownership of medical facilities is a requirement for switching to a UHC plan?
If the United States establishes a program that is Government operated / run, thereby putting the companies out of business - the law would mandate the Government pay them "just and fair compensation" - just the same way the Government has to do when they take property for a road
Would all private property / business have to be bought by the Government? Depends upon the proposal you look at. Some have suggested that this is the way it should be. Others don't.
A forum like this is absolutely no place to adequately discuss / debate this issue as it is filled with complexities. But, some of the best of the best in Constitutional law have acknowledged this point.
What you guys want is not possible. You want the American taxpayers to provide free care to all the people of the world who want to come here and get it. Illegals can simply come over and head straight to any ER and we're supposed to give them completely free health care. Welfare indigents can decide to keep having as many children as they like and the taxpayers are expected to provide completely free health care to them.
Well why don't we tear down the statue of Liberty!
"Illegals" probably don't come to the US for healthcare. They probably have a better plan and service in their homeland!
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Fortunately, you can actually find out that generally, health care in Mexico is very impressive, and in most places, very excellent,
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Generally, the costs of those medical care services vary a lot by hospital, by physician, or by the seriousness of one’s conditions. On the average, an office with a doctor-specialist included, could cost you between 250 and 300 pesos, or roughly about twenty five dollars. Lab tests could cost about one-third of what its real cost is in the United States. CAT scans are 25% more affordable than what it rates in the US. Overnight stays in private hospital rooms can only cost you about three-hundred pesos, roughly about $35 only. Furthermore, visiting the dentist for some teeth cleaning procedures only costs two hundred pesos or $20. Indeed, health care in Mexico is very much affordable as compared to the rates in the United States.
Can you give me a link to where Obama's plan would actually deport illegals who aren't paying their maternity bills? Or wouldn't the anchor baby be still considered a citizen that gets his parents all the rights of citizenship and food stamps?
And yes I do care about my family and me. I actually do not have a whole lot of money left over after bills to support more free health care for everyone. I have an insurance plan, but I don't have an iPhone and I know that many uninsured people spend plenty of money on things that I don't.
Why is it all about going after the money of the working and currently insured?
Or will you inform the uninsured that they may have to give up going to concerts, eating out in fast food restaurants, cable television because they're now going to have to start chipping in for all this health care people want?
I can give you links that show Americans are going to other countries for surgeries etc........... because the care is high quality and much less expensive.
what happens when the goverment does not want to pay for your childs medical needs anymore because it will cost too much because of a serious illness anymore, or your spouses needs because they have breast cancer?
Do you mean what happens when health insurance companies deny claims for the above mentioned health problems?
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