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Originally posted by BradM
If Canada allowed people to "buy" their way in.. that would be super.
If there were 2 levels of care... free and paid I think the system would rock.
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I understand this is how New Zealand does it. They have free/public and pay/private care (insurance as we know it is optional). Of course you still can't buy your way to the front of the organ donor line, but if you want privileges and increased-urgency you can pay for it.
best of both
plus added benefits such as having the gov't negotiate to keep drug prices down.
In any country, in any system, there will never be enough doctors or enough donors or enough expensive equipment, and the bureaucracy of administering it all will always be a messy stressful burden, and when you're in bad shape good health can't come quick enough and that's frustrating... We should all take care of eachother as well as we can with the resources available. Balancing that across an entire population means non-critical stuff might get delayed, and IMO that's quite understandable, and shouldn't be used as an arguement against universal healthcare. Most complaints aren't immediately life-threatening, so if you have to wait a few months to get that bad knee corrected or whatever, fine. Cases should be dealth with by a criteria of urgency. You would feel the same way if your tumor was malignant and the other guys was benign. But if you're the type who thinks your needs are more important than others, then just buy your way into another system. (at least it will make more room for the less wealthy)