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Letter from a Dodge Dealer
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03/06/2009 13:06:14
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
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Universal health care = lack of overall quality of health care. Period

Without constraint, healthcare can happily consume a nation's entire GDP. So in the end, once you get past issues of vocation/profession and (mostly religious) charity, healthcare quality is determined by rationing. Some systems ration by being unaffordable for many/most; others with waiting lists; most by declaring that some expensive treatments may be only part-funded or not at all. Your own policy may have some or all of these elements. FWIW, quite a few of the universal care countries also have private systems so you can elect to go private if you want a different level of care. In one such system outside the US a family of five would be looking at perhaps $700/year insurance to cover private surgery expenses if they decide to go private.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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