Like I said, I live in a medical family and the AMA reports that the only real substancial numbers we get from countries with socialized medicine are for "cosmetic" procedures.
Even if that were true (it isn't), shouldn't that give you pause?
Cosmetic procedures are almost all elective and privately paid. According to the fans of socialized medicine, that ought to mean that only the super-rich can afford those, and that such a system encourages price-gouging and massive profit margins.
Yet cosmetic surgery and LASIK decrease in cost every year, and are more quickly available than just about any non-elective surgery under Medicare, despite the fact that the evil free market has totally free reign in the cosmetic surgery field. Anyone with a wage above that of a burger flipper can afford LASIK, and you can just about have the procedure done on the spot.
Yes, right now healthcare is one of the largest multi-billion dollar industries. take that profit away and place it into the actual care system.
Yeah, take those evil profits away! Give nobody any incentive to go through 5 years of medical school and residency (and pile up a quarter million dollars in debt along the way), and take away all the incentives for corporations to develop new drugs and treatments.
You think the health care system is deplorable now? Wait until you "take that profit away".
Yes, right now healthcare is one of the largest multi-billion dollar industries. take that profit away and place it into the actual care system.
Again, even if that were true, do you really think the answer to the cost problem is to get the government involved? When has filtering any payer system through the Fed ever made anything cheaper or more efficient?