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Originally Posted by 4X4
Re: the user fee comment above...
I disagree. A user fee will (probably) only discourage people who can't afford it. And I'm just thinking about whether a single mom might try to google "gash on skull" rather than take kid to hospital. It's already bad enough that an ambulance ride costs a few hundred dollars.
IMO, simple user fees only alleviate the health system because poor people stop showing up.
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Well, there are alot of things you can do to avoid this. You can do something along the lines of what Singapore has done and give people a flat pay-out per year that is to be used to pay hospital user fees.
If you wanted, you could even waive the user fee for people under a certain income.