Government Healthcare

 

On the surface, it sounds like government healthcare might the best thing since sliced bread...  mainly because EVERYONE and I mean literally EVERYONE would finally have access to healthcare.

That seems like a good thing...  at least from the POV of American citizens and possibly ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

However, it has been my experience that anything the government becomes involved in, turns into a disaster because of mismanagement, poorly trained and motivated workers.

Unlike private enterprise, the government will put a cap on wages and salaries and that will force many of the competent and skilled doctors and nurses to find alternate employment.

Consequently, we will be left with bottom of the barrel medical personnel.  Let me put it this way...  the student(s) that make the WORST GRADES in medical school are still caused DOCTORS when they graduate.  No doubt you have experienced some of the poorly educated doctors.

Not only will the quality of medical personnel decrease, the waiting time for medical services, procedures, and surgeries in increase in waiting time.

I am reminded of a story of a 84-year-old drywall worker from Marion, VA who went to the bigger city of Wytheville, VA for medical treatment for his bladder.  After waiting in the ER for over 12 hours in pain, the young doctor finally arrived and because of his inexperience and potential legal liability refused to do the necessary surgery, referring him to another specialist in Greensboro, NC about two hours away.

While this is a small-town example, it accurately reflects what will happen with government healthcare.

Other examples are the government-controlled healthcare systems of Great Britain and Canada.  While the UK's system seems to be the best of the two, many patients from both those countries are willing to pay the cost to come to the USA for their serious healthcare issues.

Why do you think that is happening?

More than likely, it is because the USA has better physicians, and surgeons.

We have better physicians and surgeons because we have private healthcare.

It has always been a difficult decision of whether or not to have government healthcare.

Obamacare was one attempt to make that happen and there have been all sorts of negative issues as that program was implemented.

I pay $6,000/year for my healthcare which includes both government and private services (Medicare and a private supplement).  The annual costs of all my medical treatment are about $400,000 to $500,000.  I am being treated by some of the best most skilled doctors in the country.

I would lose all of that if we instituted a pure government healthcare system.