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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
It is a tiny percentage of what universal health care would be across the United States. Smaller is easier.
Perhaps the biggest thing for me is that any national healthcare program would require limits on what would be covered. I fear those limits would be stricter than I would for my healthcare.
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Smaller isn't easier. Records get lost in small systems, because people keep on moving from doctor to doctor. Every single record in the VA system is electronic, and can be easily accessed from any VA hosptial if a patient moves or gets in an accident away from home. There's no continuity of care in smaller systems, because people's coverage changes from year to year as the plans drop some physicians and keep others. It's easier to find epidemeological trends in larger systems, with larger populations numbers to study for variances. It's easier to
share information in a single large system than in several hundred smaller systems.
You can pull your kid out of public school and pay a little (or a lot) more for private education and get more for your buck. Why can't you do the same with your healthcare?
