Originally Posted by
handofthrawn
1st. We are 20 trillion dollars in debt
2nd. All medical employees would have to have wages cut, all medical practices would have to be taken over by the government, all pharmicotical companies would either have to be taken over or will be forced to go bankrupt.
3rd. Part is think of what that would do to our economy? All the lost tax revenue, the mass bankruptcy by people in the medical field.
4th. Incompetent government can not run a single payer system, let alone set one up.
5th. Doctor shortages would be massive due to doctors would leave the country to practice else where to keep making their millions.
Let's recap it would bankrupt the government, millions of health care workers and companies. Including any company involved with medical care. Shortage of trained professionals, long wait times and death panels. Then the effect on tax income, college cost and loss of innovation. Even if you figure all that out in the end the government is too incompetent to run such a system, let alone set it up.
It's a wonderful dream but let's face facts it will never happen.