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I must answer a few of these myths laid out by others below me. Medicare is anything BUT efficient. If it were such a wonderful thing, you would have a lot more doctors accepting Medicare patients. Doctors LOSE money on every Medicare patient they see, since the Feds have decided to pay ridiculously low doctors fees. However, the Feds and insurance companies still pay well for "facility fees", which is one reason so many docs own their own surgicenters these days: they get paid more for owning the building than seeing the patient.<br> Those of you fond of the Canadian system obviously haven't utilized it much. Otherwise you'd still be waiting for your knee replacement (18 months). Or maybe you would have died waiting for your cancer surgery or heart bypass. I know: many Canadian doctors have flocked to my area to earn a living without the government restrictions and rationing.<br> You can force any kind of system you want. You can force all the doctors to do anything you want. But there's just one catch: you can't force doctors to be doctors, and you can't force college students to go into health care. And if there's only over-regulation and no pecuniary incentive, you will have turned our health care system into the system our foreign doctors came to the US to avoid!
By dred
