Originally Posted by imaginethat

By advancement, do you mean the $3 million procedures that never can have a universal application?

Originally Posted by goober

We are going to have National Health Care, because we can't afford the mess we have now.
Markets don't work very well in health care.
It's one of the things the government can do much better than the private sector.
Health Care that works, costs more every year, and the better it works, the more it goes up. Because patients don't die, they live to become patients again.

The part of health care that has to go is the cost of insurance, the underwriting costs, the sales costs, the marketing costs, the administrative costs. Thats a pretty hefty share of medical costs, and pharma profits, and sales and marketing is another hefty share, and all of that doesn't provide a bed, or even an aspirin.
That's what National Health cuts out, which is how it provides the same level of care for half the cost.
Single payer doesn't cut out as much, but it still provides hefty savings.
The government pays for over half the health care in the US now.
The savings of going to national health would be roughly equal to all the private insurance premiums being paid now.

In the end conservative nonsense will lose, because we just can't afford it.

Originally Posted by Jimmyb

I mean the advancements of the US that lead the world that are funded by revenue.

Originally Posted by imaginethat

Example?

Originally Posted by Jimmyb

Example? There is no medical organization that disputes that the US is world leader in medical advancements.

Originally Posted by Jimmyb

Example? There is no medical organization that disputes that the US is world leader in medical advancements.

Originally Posted by imaginethat

Those folks' opinions are far from objective.

Please, name some advancement that unless the US had developed it, it wouldn't exist.

Originally Posted by RNG

But there are ample sources that claim that most of those advances are funded by government grants and via university research.

That's a lie big pharma has been selling to the gullible for a long time now.

Plus buying politicians of course.

Originally Posted by excalibur

Yes, single-payer 'works', like the DMV, or the Post Office. Or VA care for all.

I notice no one commented on the article I linked to.

So a libertarian (LOL - not) is willing to turn health care over to the government, even after seeing the mess government made with Øbamacare. You cannot be a libertarian and be for single-payer.


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Originally Posted by Jimmyb

Who are these folks?

That is not a valid question unless you know that the same advancements would have been created by other countries.