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Originally Posted by Table 5
I'm not sure you can find a health care system that is cheap, effective, an good anywhere on the planet. Health care is expensive, no matter who pays for it.
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Totally agree with this.
My beef with the canadian system is our priorities are:
1) doctors and nurses unions
2) The giant hmo bureaucracy
3) health care
4) wellness care
5) patient choice
In the US I'd argue they've shuffled the deck, depending on coverage, but still not hit the right recipe because the insurer is always in the mix.
No one will have truly fixed any system until there are only 3 clear priorities - patient choice, health care, and wellness care. Other countries have gotten far closer than anyone in north america to this.
There's a reason no other country (to speak of) has our crappy fully socialized system, and no other country (to speak of) has the US aversion to some kind of socialized medicine. We both suck.