We should have witch doctors in every village.

Our system sucks!

I do not trust medical care in the government control. I fear the government bureaucrat will not only make the medical decision but also will force the patient to accept the treatment such as unnecessarily medicating our children and making them robots instead of people with different personalities. On the other hand, private insurance companies are not better. Doctor listens to the patient in average of 1 minute. In our culture the human life is not valued. Doctor's office is like a conveyor belt with the RX at the end. The patient waits in the waiting area for a long time and usually the health issues are not addressed once in the doctor's office. Private insurance companies make medical decisions and control our treatment. Patients hesitate to see the doctor or emergency room in fear of the cost. Either way people will continue to suffer.

Many doctors have retired early because they spend more time filling out paperwork for HMOs and such, and much less time seeing patients. The paperwork is killing them. Patients are seen in the same way beef carcasses are inspected in a packing plant. Very quickly, with cursory examinations- gotta keep 'em moving! It dehumanizes the patient, and turns doctors into administrators. And with Obama wanting to turn this system over to the gubmint, people's healthcare will be neglected, and they will suffer needlessly.

Government controlled health care or socialized medicine simply does not work. Look to Canada and England, both have socialized medicine and both have huge tax burdens to pay for a huge, slow and totally inept health care system. To see a doctor may take months, then the doctors are only allowed to do what the government thinks he should and that is making medical decisions without a license. It would be like me going out and setting up an office and treating patients, I have no MD, therefore I should not be making medical decisions, just as the government should not be making medical decisions. Your medical decisions would be a computer screen in some governmental clerks cubical that has nothing to do with human lives. Costs are 100 times higher and 100 times less efficient. There is no motivation for a doctor to see but the required number of patients. The doctor becomes just a cog in a huge machine that he neither controls nor has any interest in. Being able to make a good living is why many people go into medicine, that would be taken away and you would see fewer and fewer people wanting to go through medical school and residencies just to make a barely livable wage. When doctors ran hospitals, health care was excellent and cheap, when hospitals began to be ran by administrators is when health care began to have increased costs and increased inefficiency. Now hospitals have several layers of administrators who do nothing but cost money, they produce nothing but chaos to justify their existance. Medicine now is big business but if you put the government in charge it will become a colossal tax burden that is growing by day with this administration. We are going to have to pay for GM. Socialized medicine simply does not work. If all of our elected officials were required to use the same system, there would never be any talk of socialized medicine.

The insurance companies themselves limit the time a doctor can spend with a patient..... More patients seen more money for all of them.... I, personally, can only see this getting worse if the govt steps in.....

no it won't

again, look to nations like South Korea, Australia, Switz etc. They have single payer healthcare and their medical system works FINE.

we have plenty of real world systems that we can learn from to create a good healthcare plan. we don't have to look just to britain, or even canada, there's the whole rest of the world too.