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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
A few points vis-a-vis Private vs. Public health care:
In no circumstances will Private solutions end up with cheaper health care due to efficiencies. Main reason is that when there's a single payer what ends up happening is health care gets rationed so that expenditures come in under some semblence of control. What that means to the end user is wait times for elective surgeries, ER waits, Diagnostic log-jams (MRIs, scans of many types), gatekeeper General Practitioners, massive wait times for specialists. Your experience from the viewpoint of AHS is that of an expense rather than a customer that brings in revenue.
Private enterprise can most definately create capacity to solve all of the above problems but don't be surprised if overall health costs had to double or more to get there and access to even basic care ends up highly difficult for some segments of society. Also over time the very nature of insurance company vs. Health Provider ensures an element of cost inflation that's egregious. What ends up happening is the customer/patient ends up getting gouged because ultimately health is an unavoidable expense. As a response of insurance companies paying out these inflated prices they jack premiums and lawyer the hell out of their policy wordings so that the average person cannot pick out what they're really covered for or not so they can get out from paying for the most expensive things (which usually end up being the life vs. death kinds of procedures).
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Thanks for that note Cowboy. Could you please outline why the introduction of private care insurance and delivery in Switzerland and England has lead to opposite outcomes than what you have predicted above? It seems the evidence does not back up the statement.