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Originally Posted by Mattyk72
No system is perfect, unfortunately ours is farther from perfection than it should be and I think that's the issue at hand.
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But our system is WAY better than Canada's. Quality of care is priority one, not whether or not everybody is covered.
Michael Moore and Hilary Clinton don't know what they're talking about when they look at the healthcare system. They gloss over all the downsides.
Hospital utilization, especially in urban areas, is already maxed out. All of the major hospitals here in Philly are running at 88% occupancy or higher. It's recommended for quality of care (so you don't stretch the nursing staff too thin) that you don't run any higher than 85%. If you give everyone in the city universal access to care, we run out of bed space. And then somebody's going to have to build more hospitals, which will come straight from the taxpayers' pocket.
As soon as we jack up the taxes to pay for the necessary hospital infrastructure, there will be less money in the pockets of the consumers, quite a bit less. Discretionary consumer spending will drop, and cyclical companies will lay workers off in droves. Then instead of having a healthcare coverage epidemic, we'll have an unemployment epidemic.
Those Canadian tax rates would have a dramatic effect on our economy if applied to American incomes. Hillary has no idea what she's doing.