Obama's Health Care Speech

rocketsjudoka · Sep 11, 2009

Grizzled said:

As you know I’m a Canadian and a big proponent of the single payer system, but I take Obama’s point that given the current state of the US health care system it would be too difficult to scrap the whole thing right now and implement a completely new system. There is also the very important question of public support. If you try to take too big a step all at once you could end up with nothing. To use a golf analogy, the ball is in the woods. If you take out the fairway wood and go for the flag you’re taking a low percentage shot and you will likely end up not advancing the ball much if at all. Chipping it out into the fairway is a less ambitious but much higher percentage shot and usually the best choice after the risk vs. reward calculation is done.
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Just to point out there are countries that don't have single-payer systems but hybrid systems that do pretty well such as Japan, Taiwan and Switzerland.

glynch · Sep 11, 2009

rocketsjudoka said:

Just to point out there are countries that don't have single-payer systems but hybrid systems that do pretty well such as Japan, Taiwan and Switzerland.
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That's fine. Let's go for it. They still don't let the whole thing be governed by insurance company lobbyists controlling legislators against the health and financial interest of its citizenry.

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