For Those of You In the Medical Field, What is Your Opinion on 'Socialized' or 'Universal' Health Care?

Hollis Demasters: Anything the government gets a hold of, they make more expensive and less efficient.If they raise your taxes, are you really saving money?I think the more you make something tax friendly like say, a HSA, the better. The more you invite a tax raise, the poorer the populace becomes.Not to mention we'll lose all the Canadian business from folks up there who are dissatisfied with their universal health care....Show more

Joellen Zorrilla: All you have to do is ask people from a country that has it.They say it sucks!!

Bryant Chaudhry: My believe is that socializing medicine or, say having universal coverage has its pros and cons. Let us make something clear, if that is to happen, there will still be private practice for people who can afford it. As far as availability of health care..it'll be there, but people will be seeing a designated physician (can't choose), There will be a physician covering in designated clinics. Heck, you might have docto! r coming to see you in you home. The physician will not get paid much, but will perhaps be compensated depending on the quantity of patients or contribution he or she makes to the community. Not too many physicians will be happy about it. Patients will not necessarily have individualized care, but again..are we getting that under the current system here in the USA? On the other hand the tax payerer will be required to pay a fixed tax. Take Germany for example, tax is over 15%just to have the health system they have. InEnglandystem is similar but doctors travel to Germany because they pay better. The quality get a bit affected in socialized medicine, because incentives are not that great for providers. Now, as far as the people in need (and mamights well include the middle class of the USA) socialized medicine would be welcome. This country will be a tough one to implement universal medicine. They may call it a pseudo universal/socialized medicine, but it will be just th! at "pseudo"....Show more

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