Is this the healthcare conservatives praise?

Great question, a shame that so many do not understand it though.

I am always amazed how many Americans seem not to be aware about the real healthcare issues relying instead on FOX and other sources to spread lies about the healthcare system of the USA and those abroad. I mean, if healthcare in nations with universal coverage is so bad, why do they keep it?

Obama wants to make insurance more available to all and change the system so that it gives the American people value for money [1]. He also wants change so that the insurance companies find it harder to get out of paying for treatment. The system he is proposing looks similar to that which works in Taiwan where private companies are involved in providing healthcare [2].

Obama campaigned on reforming the healthcare system. He said he wanted to make insurance more available and he was elected to do this [3].

FACT - the US has higher death rates for kids both for kids aged under one and those under five than western European countries with universal health coverage [4].

FACT – American insurance companies pushed up prices and worked to stop paying out claims on those they covered before the reforms came in [5].

FACT - the USA spends more on healthcare PER PERSON than any other nation on the planet [6].

That means that a dead American four year old would have had a better chance of life if they were born in any western nation with universal health coverage.

If you do not like the policies that Obama was elected to bring in, he can always be voted out of office in 2012. But if you disagree with the facts, please let me know. I am always willing to learn, but please provide proof. None of those who disagree with me have been able to do that so far.

And for the record, I work in the healthcare system in the UK. Where I work, sometimes, for routine problems, patients have to wait up to four weeks to be seen where I work. If you need to be seen on the day due to medical reasons though, you get seen on the day.

American health care is the best if you can afford it. That is the problem. We pay too much for the services that we are getting.

Conversatives have two basic policies ideas that will not work - Insurance sales across state lines and tort reform.

Increasing competition between insurance companies will not lower prices. Doctors and hospitals can drop any insurance company that does not pay them enough. If everyone paid for their own health care without insurance more people would lose their health care than gain. If you want to lower prices decrease the number of insurance companies and expanded the coverage. Prices are lower where doctors and hospitals are forced to deal with an insurance that control most of the market.

Tort reform will increase the profit margins of insurance companies, doctors and hospitals but it will not lower health care cost. Texas implemented tort reform and the health care costs grow there faster than elsewhere.

From the most of the questions here, most people do no understand how the Affordable Care Act helps. For example, the new law provide for more scholarships for more doctors and nurses. Also, the new law begins the move away from the fee-for-services to more pay-for-perfomance system.

Since the passage of the law, Medicare has already slowed the cost curve. For example, because the new law stops payments on certain patients that are re-admitted, hospitals like Cedar Sinai have agressive programs to identify those patients and treat those patients so they are not re-admitted.

To answer your question;

As a RN graduate student and LPN I can say with certainty that under Obamacare length of waiting times will increase and quality of care will decrease.....There is a huge Doctor and Nurse shortage and adding 40 million more patients to those seeking health care will only make things worse. But Liberals will not listen to those who actually work in the medical field so you will all learn first hand when you go and try to use your Obamacare for the first time and you think its bad now....LOL.

I have not been as disgusted by the United States as I am not, being an American I can not stand to see people who stay our healthcare was the best and no one waits

can you redo this in proper English?

Our health care is the best. Our system of paying for it is far from perfect, but wait until Obamacare starts telling people above a certain age that it is not cost effective to save their lives, and that it is illegal for them to pay cash to get the medical procedure.

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A public hospital is the health care of last resort. Leftists wanting to turn all of OUR health care into a public hospital system SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

There were lots of solutions offered by Republicans, but the Democrats in their zeal to pass ObamaCare didn't care. LOL!

Wait times in the US are lower than anywhere else in the world. So what are you suggesting? That we copy a system that would result in longer wait times?

You think that's bad just wait until Obamacare kicks in, you'll be looking back and saying those were the good old days...BEWARE!!!

You need to work on accurate typing.