I want to know what nurses think about socialized medicine.

The high costs have been perpetuated in an upward spiral over the years by the big drug pushers and the private health insurance industry. That's why a $10 Aspirin on the hospital bill doesn't cost $10 over the border in other countries which already have an established Universal Health care system in place. Keep in mind the "current" high costs for health care in the U.S are created by "for profit" entities and naturally they want everything to be as expensive as possible.

However, in a public funded taxpayer system, the costs are placed under the microscope of the public taxpayer. Let's call it "public accountability" for public tax dollars spent if you will. You can't have public accountability with a private health insurance or for profit drug companies. That is the problem.

In fact, if you use Google, you can quickly find out that a Universal Health Care system will serve to actually "lower" the costs associated with providing health care services to the public.

For example:

http://healthcare.change.org/blog/vi...l_reduce_costs

I don't think many people really understand that.

But I would rather fork my private health insurance dollars over to a public system instead because they won't deny coverage, it will not be tied to an employer and the system will guarantee heath care to every American and they will do so with public accountability involved.

No inflated costs, no pre existing condition or out of pocket and co pay nonsense. Just straight care for straight tax dollars. Makes sense to me.

My Best.

We will end up with a smaller bureaucracy after health care reform.



at http://www.health-insurance-2008.org...-vs-canada.php

The high costs have been perpetuated in an upward spiral over the years by the big drug pushers and the private health insurance industry. That's why a $10 Aspirin on the hospital bill doesn't cost $10 over the border in other countries which already have an established Universal Health care system in place. Keep in mind the "current" high costs for health care in the U.S are created by "for profit" entities and naturally they want everything to be as expensive as possible.

However, in a public funded taxpayer system, the costs are placed under the microscope of the public taxpayer. Let's call it "public accountability" for public tax dollars spent if you will. You can't have public accountability with a private health insurance or for profit drug companies. That is the problem.

In fact, if you use Google, you can quickly find out that a Universal Health Care system will serve to actually "lower" the costs associated with providing health care services to the public.

For example:

http://healthcare.change.org/blog/vi...l_reduce_costs

I don't think many people really understand that.

But I would rather fork my private health insurance dollars over to a public system instead because they won't deny coverage, it will not be tied to an employer and the system will guarantee heath care to every American and they will do so with public accountability involved.

No inflated costs, no pre existing condition or out of pocket and co pay nonsense. Just straight care for straight tax dollars. Makes sense to me.

My Best.

We will end up with a smaller bureaucracy after health care reform.



at http://www.health-insurance-2008.org...-vs-canada.php

An economics professor at a local college made a statement

that he had never failed a single student before, but had once

failed an entire class.

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That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked

and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich,

a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK,we will have
an experiment in this class on asocialism plan".


All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive

the same grade so no one would fail and no one would

receive an A.

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone

got a B.The students who studied hard were upset and the

students who studied little were happy.

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied

little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard

decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D!
No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.


The scores never increased as bickering,blame and name-calling

all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the

benefit of anyone else.

All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that

socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is

great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes

all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

Could not be any simpler than that.

Oh my gosh, you said it very well! Maybe we should just let the States handle this.
"The proper role of government is to provide equal rights, not provide equal things."