Universal care is no different. If your surgery is deemed unnecessary, you really have no chance at getting it.
All of my relatives in Canada come over to the US for any major surgery. The reason? The wait time is in years, instead of weeks and some can't get the surgery at all.
"Once you start running a hospital like a business, you create an environment of perverse incentives. Care is no longer solely based on what's best for the patient, but how that patient's care relates to the hospital's finances."
Government-run care is no different. It doesn't magically solve the issue of treating patients as a number.
"So wealthy people get access to better care and everyone else has to take whatever is available"
The alternative is that everyone gets access to sub-par care.
The answer is an actual free market, rather than another, large middleman monopoly over our health care. We need to get rid of all insurance companies, allow hospitals and doctors to compete over price (which will reduce prices for everything to true values (instead of $80 Aspirin), and only have insurance for surgeries that are rare and can't benefit from the free market.
Monopolies are bad for everyone, whether it's big business or the government.
All of my relatives in Canada come over to the US for any major surgery. The reason? The wait time is in years, instead of weeks and some can't get the surgery at all.
"Once you start running a hospital like a business, you create an environment of perverse incentives. Care is no longer solely based on what's best for the patient, but how that patient's care relates to the hospital's finances."
Government-run care is no different. It doesn't magically solve the issue of treating patients as a number.
"So wealthy people get access to better care and everyone else has to take whatever is available"
The alternative is that everyone gets access to sub-par care.
The answer is an actual free market, rather than another, large middleman monopoly over our health care. We need to get rid of all insurance companies, allow hospitals and doctors to compete over price (which will reduce prices for everything to true values (instead of $80 Aspirin), and only have insurance for surgeries that are rare and can't benefit from the free market.
Monopolies are bad for everyone, whether it's big business or the government.