Healthcare is expensive. It requires lots of highly trained people and expensive equipment. Effective drugs are expensive to develop. Maintaining the required documentation requires a multiple levels of administration.
The government has not proven that it can control cost. For years it has been clear that the Medicare entitlement was too expensive. It doesn’t pay for itself now and there is no plan in place for it to be adequately funded in the future. Yet, we are to believe that the government will do a better job with more people covered? The phrase,”We are losing money on every sale, but we plan to make up for it on volume,” comes to mind. If we apply a bankrupt model to a new larger system, the new system will surely be more bankrupt than the old one.
The VA system is the government model. The VA moves slowly, often lacks or does not utilize the latest technology, and uses a limited formulary of medications. Our vets are getting great care… for 1985.
A social health plan will : 1) dramatically increase the deficit 2) roll the standard of care back a decade or more 3) stifle innovation by removing money for and financial incentive from research and development 4)reduce the number of and productivity from doctors. The costs are too high.
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