The key is to de-privatise the health care industry. A service to humanity shouldn't be a for profit industry. When Americans talk of health care, they're talking about the insurance industry. A scenario where government should be, but isn't is preoccupied by a place government is and shouldn't be. In Canada the hospital's are not corporate entities but government owned and run Services to a developed and westernized system. All procedures have a set price across the board. It's $89.95 for a three stiches - inclusive - not $2,000. Largely symbolic, that's what the hospital is reimbursed. The Dr's and nurses are on salary. Not nearly as opulent as your average American surgeon, but more a dignified and respected position. Societies vices are highly taxed. Cigarettes and alcohol are twice the price in Canada compared to the USA and those monies are directly steered back into funding for the health care system. Arguments of wait times being exorbitant in Canadian hospital's are, therefore, also symbolic in nature. Notwithstanding, a procedure may be diagnosed as necessity but not urgent. Logically, attention to cost saving scrutiny is top priority to a hospital administrator and excessive access to equipment is deemed a luxury. A single hospital might not have more than one cat scan machine. A privatised system...is what it is. The pharmaceutical system in the USA, modeled on the privatised health care system is immensely credited with its research facilities, programs, and successes in its own right and is unquestionably a credit to itself. Occasionally abused and taken advantage of to an obscene degree, it is an accolade to those civilised societies it accommodates. There will never be change in the US health care system, which is immensely cruel to most, until congress stops talking about the insurance industry in disguise, and breaches the actual subject of health care. Then you'll see the Dr's lobby, and it won't be pretty, either.
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