Originally posted by Racer X 69 But the money comes from the people through taxes.
So each taxpayer is an owner of the health care system.
That's the point. In a for profit model such as what is used in the USA, the company underwriting the insurance has a typical business model, much like any other company that is retailing something.
The business model puts profit and shareholder value at the top of the list. Obviously, no company wants it's customer base dying off, but every company will, at some point, fire the occasional customer for being too expensive.
Try being a serial returner at Amazon and see how long it is befor they stop shipping to your address and accepting your credit card.
Also, I expect there are several levels of health care based on how much gold pressed latinum the customer is willing to pay, much like there are several levels of car based on how much the customer is willing to pay.
In the universal model that Canada uses, there is, in theory, one level of care that everyone gets, and as there is no profit model, due to the shareholders and customers being the same people, there are no financial dividends to pay out, resulting in lower overall costs.
Having said this, the system is far from perfect, and I expect in Canada it is going to get quite a bit more expensive in a hurry. The bill for treating our 1.6 million and counting cases at about Can$24k each is going to come home to roost at some point. Add to that, it's going to cost just to get the health care workers who have walked away because they can't handle the work stress any longer bribed back into the system.
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Originally posted by barondla This is why so many don't trust the experts. We were told over and over, in the US, that 70% would do it.
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barondla
70% might have looked good a year and a half ago, but that's changed. The people who don't trust the experts don't understand or don't care to try to understand how learning about new stuff works.
Science evolves. I expect that the same people who don't trust medical experts would have decided rocket ships to the moon would never work because the first ones tended to blow up on the launch pad.
The people who don't trust the experts are willfully ignorant.