British View of their Nat'l Health System

Gern Blansten

_Crazy_Mary_ wrote:

Here's how I see the proposed national healthcare in America.
Obama has said it will be budget neutral and won't cost us anything extra. How can you give healthcare to everybody and it not cost anything? Unless you force the doctor's to accept less pay in which case the doctor's will give up their practice. Then we have less doctors and more patients. How can it work?

what?

we ALL pay for healthcare now....either through health insurance premiums or through taxes or through higher pass through costs

And come on....a doctor will quit his practice? to do what?

Ignorance is bliss I guess....

Heatherj43

_Crazy_Mary_ wrote:

Here's how I see the proposed national healthcare in America.
Obama has said it will be budget neutral and won't cost us anything extra. How can you give healthcare to everybody and it not cost anything? Unless you force the doctor's to accept less pay in which case the doctor's will give up their practice. Then we have less doctors and more patients. How can it work?

The doctors currently take less pay to those with various health care plans. They have arrangements with the ones they accept. But, go in and see one without any insurance and you won't get the discounts health care plans get. You will pay more.