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When healthcare is delivered through a government and doctors are paid a salary... then what is the incentive? Here, if a doctor does shoddy work, word spreads and he looses business. But if the government pays doctors a salary and assigns them patients, then there is just no incentive to be the best.
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This model has been used by insurance companies already, in managed care plans. The provider who joins "the network" gets paid so much per month for each enrollee they have as a patient.
I live where we have many visitors from Canada and the UK. When I meet someone from there, I ask how they feel about their universal health care. I've not heard one negative word.
Our health care system, in this economy, will not be able to be sustained. The high quality is going to fall because there is less money for R&D and there are fewer persons seeking medical care due to the cost. So an adjustment is going to happen anyway, over time. I think the most sensible and most inclusive, caring answer is universal healthcare with the option to buy private insurance.
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Originally Posted by Bipolarartist
Is nothing in your country simple? (besides politicians I suppose thats universal)
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LOL!! No, nothing is simple when so much money is at stake. The insurance industry probably has the most lobbyists, protecting their fortune. Where else can you issue relatively useless contracts, call it "healthcare", charge a fortune, create it so it is too costly to use and therefore few benefits have to be paid, and just sit back and watch the bank account grow. It is so obscene and inhumane.