It's closer to having the ability to negotiate prices for drugs, medical equipment, etc. on a national scale, and having less of a bureaucracy and far fewer middlemen to pay out compared to our system. For example, we spend about five times as much per person on just administrative costs as they do in Canada.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/time.co...ts/%3famp=true

Besides, we deny care all the time over here. It wasn't until the ACA when a person could either be denied coverage for a procedure or even lose their insurance if an underlying pre-existing condition was "discovered".
And if a person is uninsured or underinsured, that makes it a lot more likely they would self-deny medical care because they simply cannot afford the extravagant price tag.

__________________
"I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side." - Donald Trump, on pedophile Jeff Epstein.

I don't think the Federal Government has the ability to negotiate lower prices. If anything, they will put suppliers, and manufacturers out of business, and that will drive prices up.

This is a ruse for a total government take-over of the ENTIRE field of medicine.

Eventually ALL doctors, and nurses will be government employees, and all medical manufacturing, and supply will be under the federal government.

__________________
"The freedom of speech is, in sum, our foremost protection against tyranny. Without it, a tyrant can work his will without any fear of his opponents uttering even one cross word."

Oh no they won't. rx prices are far beyond the pale. Ttrust me they will survive and still be billionares.

...

...
mmm what was said when Medicare then Medicaid were first proposed.

__________________

Thank you for proving me right.

__________________
"The freedom of speech is, in sum, our foremost protection against tyranny. Without it, a tyrant can work his will without any fear of his opponents uttering even one cross word."

I almost fell out of my chair laughing at that statement. When as the gov't EVER resisted the temptation to pile on layer upon layer of bureaucracy? Name one program where the gov't is efficient at ANYTHING.

With that comment, I couldn't even read the rest of the post as it is based upon some seriously flawed logic.

__________________
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead - Thomas Paine

A lie doesn't become truth, a wrong doesn't become right, and Evil doesn't become good, just because it is accepted by the majority. - Booker T Washington

Do you not view the government as 'middlemen'? Does the government not have 'administrative costs'? Are there not predetermined wage hikes via the GWU (where applicable) regardless of merit, increasing 'administrative costs' without additional production?

'Over here', if insurance denies coverage (which is just a method of payment), and all reviews have been exhausted, a person has an option. If they believe it is something they must have, then they can pay for it themselves, if they have the means to. There are also other countries that may offer the same service for less. Once the government is involved, that option goes away. We've seen the results of that in the UK.

The pre-existing condition clause was about the only worthwhile thing that came out of the ACA, but gone about so far wrong it would take the government or a committee to screw it up so completely. I estimate approximately two pages of legalese could have addressed that issue. I do not see it as an effective reason to maintain any pretense that the ACA was a 'good thing'.

Once again, let Medicare be expanded to those who want it, and leave the rest of us alone.

__________________
Your life is the sum total of the choices you make.
If you don't laugh at yourself, a whole bunch of people will volunteer to do it for you
I never lose. I either win, or I learn....