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Getting any kind of care in this country is a big problem. A lot of it stems from the fact that low knowledge people are making miss-statements about "socialist" medical care. They don't really know what they are talking about. Just take a look at countries like Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Yes, people pay higher taxes than we do, but they get back so much more and they are living a good life. I speak with some experience as my husband (now deceased) and I have good friends living in Denmark. We have visited with them and the have come here to visit us.
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Agreed. We have two issues to deal with. 1) Not enough doctors, and 2) expensive complicated beyond logic health insurance system
How to increase number of doctors? Either we make medical schools affordable, and increase the capability of medical schools to train students (why are there limited places?) or we attract and import more doctors from other countries.... also keep the ones coming here for training
Our insurance system makes care more expensive than other countries. Medicare is more cost efficient because it doesn't have all the extra costs an insurance company has. I remember decades ago the big hoopla over "socialized medicine". And how do you think an insurance company HMO works? Same construction...
We all need quality affordable medical care. In economic terms, this means medical care is a "captive market" and not a free market. So capitalistic concepts and competition are not in the best interests of the patient.
Companies are profit driven so they have an interest to limit services to you. We don't need choice, we need coverage! Medicare is far more cost efficient