Quote (djman72 @ Jul 18 2017 03:20pm)
It makes healthcare virtually free for All Americans (aside from the taxes each family/individual will pay).
Demand will be unlimited and not capped, the system will be abused just like welfare.
Waiting times to see doctors will be ridiculous even worse for specialists.
Any and every ache, pain, and inconvenience will result in a "free" visit to the doctor.
There is a reason why Canadians go to the US and other places for health care with problems that require any sense of urgency.
Lets not even get into how the government will pay the various physicians, services, medications/needs. Without some type of free market system, there is no competition for these services to drive down price.
It's economically unsound in our system. Physicians will become government employees.
Single Payer gives all of the control to the government. When the government gets involved in things, they usually fuck it up.
Not to say our current system / pre obama care system isn't without it's faults.
You seem to be a bit confused about how single payer works. For one hospitals, physicians, and pharmaceutical companies and facilities all stay private and compete. A single payer doesn't remove competition. Healthcare is actually immune to competition inherently for any service of urgency, such as heart surgery or emergency treatment. This allows the price for a heart attack to vary wildly depending on where you live despite the services being the same, and costing the same for the hospital.
I'm going to bold this because people usually ignore it.
Free markets don't always lower prices. Markets will also raise the price as high as payers are willing to tolerate.As far as people from Canada coming to the United States to get urgent care, that's not totally true, but Canada also isn't the only metric of comparison we could use. The UK has been ranked #1 in terms of timeliness of care.