American Healthcare In Crisis

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I know patriotic Americans will hate this answer, but a fully government managed healthcare system could expel the profit motive. It might even be possible to have medical care "free at the point of treatment".

No it won't!

Did you ever see the movie Office Space?  It was a comedy, but the underpinning theme was the notion of incremental increases across a massive data set, namely a few "fractions of a cent across thousands of transactions".  Well, this is the exact same way politicians view taxes!  They think a seemingly small incremental increase across a massive data set (i.e. us taxpayers) will allow them to fix anything.  Crooked big Pharma and insurance companies absolutely LOVE this approach.

Couple the above concept with the notion of ..."We're the Government, and we're here to help you!" (aka...we're gonna' fuck everything up fifty times worse than you could have EVER imagined!)...and you have an award winning recipe for the most incomprehensibly fucked up, non-functional and colossally inefficient as well as expensive system imaginable!

Never, and I mean NEVER, trust the 'government' to "fix" anything, they'll only fuck it up 10x worse!!!!

I can only repeat my previous answer; it has been made to work in other countries, who are happy with the way it works.

Name one!

Canada? (where you have to wait 2 years to get treated for something which is going to kill you in 6 months?)

UK?  (where you have to wait 6 months to see a doctor...to even find out what's wrong with you?)

Russia?

France?

Antarctica?

Mars?

Go to the hospital in China, IF you get admitted and have NO insurance or cash, your nasty bed with dirty sheets is in the hallway or stairwell.
No, food service, no clean sheets, no toilet, no nurse checking on you and No Pain Medicine and your IV needle (if you get one) is from the other patient that just died.

You or your child need surgery? You had better have CASH in your hand or the doctor will tell you to go home.

Let the Government control healthcare, think about that,,,,, a politician comes into office worth $85,000. dollars in 6 or so years leaves office worth MILLIONS!