What is the problem with Canadian and European Style Universal Single Payer Health Care?

Honestly From the research i've seen their health care is actually better over all then ours simply due to the fact that people go to the doctor earlier. They get preventative treatment. The wait times in the ER are generally lower since there are less people there for ailments that could be treated with a GP.

I'm currently on a PPO and so I get to pick my doctor from a list. They get to pick any doctor. I pay $140 a month plus co pays on visits and prescriptions which is usually another $70 a month, on average what comes out of their taxes is HALF what we pay.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH SINGLE PAYER?! PLEASE EDUCATE ME! abcnews.go.com/Health/GlobalHealth/story... - Infant mortality rates

wpasinglepayer.org/PollResults.html A list of polls over the years. Asked by Tigntink 28 months ago Similar questions: problem Canadian European Style Universal Single Payer Health Care Health.

Similar questions: problem Canadian European Style Universal Single Payer Health Care.

Problem with Canadian and European Back in the mid-1990s, American seniors were mobilized into action to resist a plan to reform the Medicare system - in fairly modest ways - by scare tactics and misrepresentations. That time, of course, the losers of the exchange were the Republicans, who wanted to look for ways to cut down on fraud and waste, slow the rate of payment increases, and impose some level of cost-benefit analysis into the process of decision-making for Medicare funded procedures (sound familiar? ) At one point, a proposal to slow the rate of increased spending was being publicly presented as a plan to slash Medicare spending.

Some movies are criticized for being derivative - this kind of argument is a second derivative. The Republicans called it "Mediscare," and no one did it better than Clinton during the 1996 election. I vividly remember the outrage of a friend of mine, at the time a Republican Party operative in an East Coast state known for its colorful politics.

He was incensed at the dishonesty, the bare primacy of politics over policy, the use of appeals to raw emotion to stifle any serious discussion of a critically important policy issue. (Side note: the friend in question later moved from politics to banking, switched to the Democratic Party, and converted to Judaism. Um, I think I feel good about it.)Of course, the Republicans got their turn with and Harry and Louise.

I just saw a really sad story about the actress who played Louise in those commercials; apparently she later couldn't get work because directors would say "I'm not hiring the woman who killed health care reform. "And now we have Obamacare.In one sense, this is just another chapter of the bipartisan tradition of demagoguing social policy in the name of party politics. And Americans in large numbers go for it every time.

What is it about us? I'm not actually sure Americans are capable of meaningful rational collective except in the face of imminent and total disaster. I think it's part of the anarchic strand of Romantic madness in the American character that comes down to us from Tom Paine and Daniel Shays.

Perfectly sober Bohemian Socialists, well-disciplined Italian Anarchists, long-suffering Slovak peasant farmers, decent, hard-working Irish nationalist - they all came to America, abandoned their Left revolutionary roots, and turned into populist whack jobs. And then they became Nativists, which is even more miraculous. I remember a news story about a controversy over a mosque in Hamtramck, Michigan.

One local resident, in particular, complained that the call to prayer being broadcast from the minaret was un-American - "if they're going to live in America, why can't they be more American," she asked? I saw a video of the interview. While the video shows, that the newspaper interview does not, is that she made this statement standing in front of a church whose lettering was in Ukrainian.

But I digress.So there is nothing new about Mediscare-style arguments, rambunctious and easily manipulated populists, or Astroturf-style mobilizations. But there is something about this debate that feels different, something more intense. I kept trying to put my finger on it, to find a phrase to capture the elusive qualitative difference between these scare tactics and those of political operatives past.

And then Samantha Bee capture the zeitgeist of the moment in a single pithy phrase: "universal single-payer shamanistic death panels. "Not just an obvious name for a thrash metal band, "universal single-payer shamanistic death panels" captures the quality that differentiates this "debate" from even previous "debates" on the topic. In those earlier debates, participants misrepresented plans, exaggerated dangers ... in short, they described an inaccurate version of the policy debate taking place.It was as if they were describing a debate taking place somewhere else - in Canada, say, or Mexico - rather than the debate taking place in the United States at that time.

By contrast, the people showing up to disrupt town hall meetings this summer have left the planet entirely.

Problem with Canadian and European Style Universal Single Payer Health Care. I never actually said whether I support socialized/universal health care or ... to fix our health care issues in the US is not to copy the Canadian/European style socialized system, which undeniably has major problems of its own. ... in fact a “single payer” plan and you are enjoying a form of “socialized medicine.... Sources: blog.acton.org/archives/2220-Will-Social... .

1 "preventative medicine"---that's why they live longer and are skinnier then us..

Preventative medicine"---that's why they live longer and are skinnier then us..

2 Nothing is wrong with it. Our health care system is a disaster, but the entrenched special interests are willing to let it destroy our country rather than reform it. Witness the current town brawl meetings where their lackeys appear to spread the misinformation the have been fed.

Nothing is wrong with it. Our health care system is a disaster, but the entrenched special interests are willing to let it destroy our country rather than reform it. Witness the current town brawl meetings where their lackeys appear to spread the misinformation the have been fed.

3 You can't talk common sense to people who see taxes as a bad thing rather than their obligation for services that are provided.

You can't talk common sense to people who see taxes as a bad thing rather than their obligation for services that are provided.

" "Which should come first. Health care or the economy? Or are they both intertwined?

" "Health care?" "How much do you know about proposed health care reform? " "Question for health care workers" "Are you in favor of National health Care?

Which should come first. Health care or the economy? Or are they both intertwined?

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.