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| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
why not a two-tiered system? im sure it could work because the govt/our taxes wont be paying for cancer treatments, or anything serious in the way i would have it done. it would be all the gay ass shit that people get sick with every day, the small bullshit fractures that happen, muscle pulls, you know. the shit that doesnt need some doctor that specializes in things and keeps costs down and manageable. then the private health care would cover the rest. thats a smart alternative imho. obviously its an unrefined idea, but from a more neutral perspective it seems a lot better than one extreme or the other.
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This is the kind of rational idea that needs to be explored in the US. I know everyone who doesn't have insurance or who is paying out the ass for insurance wants to hear that everything will be free and the government will pick up the tab but that isn't realistic. The US government cannot afford to provide full health care benefits for everyone, expecially at the same level that those of us with good private insurance are used to getting.
The cost of medicaid eats up nearly 25% of the yearly budget for each and every state in the US. This covers a small fraction of the popluation who is very poor. Try to expand that coverage to everyone in the US and every year and the program's cost will consume more money than is taken in from tax revenue for the entire year.
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