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Is there any kind of study which compares the cost of overall medical expenses for the entire country versus how much it would cost to enable this socialized medicine thing?
Like this example: a woman feels like she's getting sick. She doesn't go to the doctor because she has no insurance, figures it will go away. Over time she gets worse, finally ending up in the emergency room. They find that she's got a cancer that if she would have gotten treated when she first felt sick, would have been easy to take care of. Now it's gotten horribly bad and the hospital treats her to save her life, using all their fancy gear, spends a ton of money and she dies, and the hospital absorbs the cost, and the hospital hikes up their prices to cover it.
Compare that to the woman going into her doctor early and taking care of the problem because she's insured.
Overall, which example costs more to us all?
Personally I think that if everyone had the chance to go to the doctor when they can, it would keep a lot of Americans from getting very costly sick, relieve a lot of the burden from hospitals and cost the country less in the long run.
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