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[Kevy Baby]

The link above is broken, but I was able to figure it out. It is a site dedicated to all of the arguments in favor of UHC (not blasting that, just putting it into perspective).

I am surprised that no one has brought up Canada, as our neighbor to the north is often mentioned as a sucess of UHC. However, as people are discovering, the downside of UHC is POOR QUALITY OF CARE.

Off and on, I have looked into UHC. There are gazillions of links both pro and con. Each will provide the horror stories of what is wrong with the opposing idealogy - to the point of people that have died that would not have had they had their own type of health coverage. And that is BS.

People are not dying unnecessarily under our current health system. Yes, our current health care system has flaws. But UHC is not an answer - it is simply a whole new set of problems. A change that I am not willing to make as it is not progress!

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

People are not dying unnecessarily under our current health system.

I'm not so sure about this, people certainly are forgoing prescribed prescriptions, which can't have a positive effect. Likewise I think people are putting off care, which also increases the chances of death. Granted these are choices people are making.

I think the real problem is the cost of health care has become so high, there are a gazillion tests and procedures one can undergo to rule out a certain diagnosis, and in the fear of mortality we certainly will want to try everything, including the high cost and experimental. As a result Insurance Companies are now gate keepers of care, no different than the government gate keepers in those horror stories. In any scenario, you have to set a base level, and there will be a population that disagrees with where that is set and people will die unnecessarily.