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Originally Posted by baddog
We are not Socialists, and hopefully never will be.
Affordable health care (insurance) is one thing, but capitalism is why there are strides in medicine. Precisely why communism doesn't work. You don't give incentive to people to come up with better ideas.
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Capitalism also has insurance companies telling doctors what procedures they are allowed to do. It has prescription drug companies sending doctors on lavish vacations so that they'll prescribe their more expensive drugs. It has drug lobbyists paying of congressmen so they ensure we can't buy our drugs from other countries. It has lawyers coming up with minor mistakes to cancel an insurance policy of over 20 years so they don't have to pay.
I'm all for capitalism and the advancement of the medicine. Heck, my brother is a chemist for one of the big pharm companies. But insurance companies and drug companies should not be making the decisions of our doctors. When I go in, the doctor should be making decisions on what he thinks is right, not what the insurance company deems as acceptable. He should be prescribing drugs based on what he feels is best, not by which country sent his family to Tahiti.
Those are the first changes we need to make in our healthcare system that has nothing to do with socializing medicine.