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For several years, the topic of some sort of nationalized health care has been discussed both here and in society at large. Let's sum up the two sides with something like "it's good because access" and "it's bad because rationing and lack of innovation."
It's probably time to move past a discussion of whether it is good or bad because realistically it is inevitable. A system that is designed so as to divert societal resources away from the very places they are needed in a time of crisis will (and probably should) be replaced [see the articles on Harvard docs losing retirements and taking pay cuts while the HCA CEO keeps 99% of his compensation intact].
The reason I have started this thread is to facilitate a discussion on how we make "what comes next" as beneficial as possible for our patients and the people who take care of them. It is an attempt to learn from the mistakes of our existing system as well as from the mistakes other nations with a universal/single pay/nationalized system have made so we don't repeat them.
There's no point in having a discussion centered around if at this point and we should get busy making sure what comes next is tolerable.
It's probably time to move past a discussion of whether it is good or bad because realistically it is inevitable. A system that is designed so as to divert societal resources away from the very places they are needed in a time of crisis will (and probably should) be replaced [see the articles on Harvard docs losing retirements and taking pay cuts while the HCA CEO keeps 99% of his compensation intact].
The reason I have started this thread is to facilitate a discussion on how we make "what comes next" as beneficial as possible for our patients and the people who take care of them. It is an attempt to learn from the mistakes of our existing system as well as from the mistakes other nations with a universal/single pay/nationalized system have made so we don't repeat them.
There's no point in having a discussion centered around if at this point and we should get busy making sure what comes next is tolerable.