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Originally Posted by $5 submissions
OUCH!!! Would socialization of the health industry fix the looming Medicare fiscal disaster by lowering costs? Or would it be merely shifting the costs to somewhere else?
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The idea is that it lowers costs.
I don't want to get into volumes here on the merits/drawbacks to universal health care, it's a touchy subject for alot of people.
I will say though that every other industrialized nation in the world besides the US has it, and they all spend a far lower % of their GDP on health care than we do, and they cover their entire population.
We can either nationalize and regulate the entire system, start kicking seniors out of emergency rooms in 10 years, or bankrupt the entire nation.
Those are literally the only choices we have.