Single payer won't work but it would be better than what we have. Have a friend in Canada who is in the construction business. Worker broke his leg. Friend loads him up and races him to hospital or clinic. They make broken leg person sit while they do nothing. Friend gets really pissed and grabs a wheel chair puts broken leg patient in wheelhair...rolls him out of hospital and races to another hospital. Broken leg more important than snotty nose or skinned knee.
The state system that covers the unemployed could use generic imported drugs to lower the cost and people signed up would not be able to sue for negligence lowering insurance costs for doctors. Companies could utilise the state system, for a fee, for part time and low paid workers. This would provide income for the state system and still allow private insurance for full time employees.
Well if you are going to take away our health insurance, couldn't the government at least give us Medical Savings Accounts? We could have Single Payer pay for some of it. He has all kinds of money for healthcare.
The state "pays" for nothing. Taxpayers confiscated wealth pays for whatever the state arbitrarily decides. And that is mostly whatever gets them reelected.
%% Some are, srinir,[ +good rebuke on DM] but as you noted , we don't do broad brushes. I had a network give me free book written by Dr Reginald Cherry MD, one of the more skillful+ studious medical doctors. NOT all doctors study as much as they should.; many do not STUDY AS MUCH AS THEY SHOULD Even US senator [Dem]Max of Montana warned ''ACA is TRAINWRECK''============================================================================PS This is to all; calling HEALTH insurance ''health care'' is like calling tow truck insurance ''car care'' LOL. Thanks
%% Possible,New W; but let us see . All US military+ many vets gets health care[not considered insurance@ all].US Military service estimated @7% so its already not 2%/98%. Medical cost sharing[maybe not legal in Montanna,LOL]; not insurance@ all , much better, unless one chooses to live in Montana]. I saw 4 of those first google search.I also cut a loss earlier in the year..... myself; that is much better than the other way. Many people know[ from experience] cash is better than insurance; but plenty of non cash moves work , which is beyond my notes here[Dr Reginld Cherry .....others] Frankly I could go on + on; but I know how to cut a loss,do you?? >> Let us see?? And related to that but separate ''ACA is a TRAINWRECK''===========================================================================Thanks for your comment NewW.
It's not just pay. All that time and money that doctors invest in their training as well as the risk they take every day when performing their surgeries, writing prescriptions, administering medicine is all risk. If a CEO botches a company, he can usually get a job somewhere else and continue his career. If a doctor botches a surgery, his or her career is usually over. CEO's and traders don't have to carry malpractice insurance. The risk and opportunity cost alone justifies the higher salary. For all the people who wish that doctors were paid the same as teachers and government workers, I wish that they lived in a society where that was true.