Venezuelan President decrees emergency, seizes factories

And your argument is, let's not fix things that we know works in other countries, and go straight ahead into implementing drastic measures immediately. The USA was ranked number one in quality by the very sources you used to say we spend more than other countries. It will be inevitable that this quality will decrease if we take dramatic measures. Over 9,000 UK ESRD patients died because they were on a waiting list for dialysis under the NHS system. In the U.S.? 0. Medicare will pay for it for their lifetime treatments, and there are enough dialysis centers to handle the load. Paperwork is the least of my concerns when it comes to it.

The matter of the fact is doctors and hospitals can refuse government insured patients. Just like what one of the largest providers in Oregon did. Keep charging $12/patient visit, and no doctor will take in these hordes of patients once you give single-payer to all. In some regions of Canada, there is only one primary care doctor per 1100 patients.

Instead, I am an absolute fan of the Singapore system, which has time and time again ranked number 1 in terms of efficiency, healthcare spending, and outcomes. The government's "invisible" hand forces the people to save money for healthcare by taking a % of their paycheck and putting it into a health savings account. They enforce price transparency, so all hospitals must make their prices available for the people to shop around with, causing competition and fair use of prices. For those who are poor, there is a social safety net (Medisave). And for those who don't want to wait too long, want elective services, or want higher quality care, there is the option of private insurance. How come we aren't looking at the number one rated country, but the only options are systems from Morocco, Colombia, Norway, or the UK? Granted, the Singapore system had an advantage of implementing this recently by INTEGRATING everything that worked best for each country.

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