Don't Copy Europe's Mistakes: Less Government Is the Right Way to Fix Healthcare

The U.S. system is not perfect and has many faults just like every country does. One way to make U.S. healthcare better for all is to have real proper TORT reform and put a cap on lawyer's fees, that's a start. There also needs to be thousands and thousands of more smaller community insurance companies in the smaller cities and towns sort of like smaller banks to give people more options, choices and more competition, there are also many many more ways to make insurance more affordable.

More Europeans go to Anadolu Health Centre in Turkey for treatment. Every year, Anadolu Health Centre in Istanbul, is seeing more Europeans come to it for a range of affordable medical treatments at prices well below those in their home country. It has a strategic agreement with the Johns Hopkins University Medical Faculty Hospital. Johns Hopkins with a century old experience was selected the best hospital in USA. consecutively for 16 years by the annual US News & World Report.

#1 place for Canadians to get hip replacements is in Ohio, #1 place for Canadians to get knee replacements is in Michigan. Over 85% of the world's drugs to fight cancer, aids and other diseases are created in the U.S.. Maybe if EU countries didn't take off 6 months of the year to be lazy and go on vacation they could work harder for new research to fight diseases instead of ask Obama: "Come save us, fix global warming, give us something, acknowledge us.!!"

Also, people from around the world in the millions don't flock to any European country to get surgery and cancer treatment but the U.S. is the #1 country for millions of people to get surgery like the president of Italy who got care here. Also, under U.S. law everyone gets into the ER and no one is turned away, so the socialist lying media in other countries lie often about the U.S.. WE DON'T WANT SOCIALIZED MEDICINE HERE!

The U.S. also has the highest survival rates for cancer patients on earth, anywhere from 12% to 20% higher than any other country. There are also plenty of videos online showing how bad socialized medicine is, babies being born in the hallways of hospitals in the U.K. etc and it's much more expensive to live in socialized countries where the taxes are much higher in order to afford to pay for govt healthcare. Our country would collapse if we had socialized healthcare.

Everyone can see a doctor in the U.S. and no one is refused anything, it's U.S. law. All healthcare is is just a system to pay for one's doctors bills. The U.S. has the best healthcare on earth and I can see a doctor and get surgery faster than anyone where else on earth in the U.S.. We don't make the ederly or anyone wait months or even years to get hip, knee, shoulder replacements. There is NOTHING compassionate about longer waiting lines to get surgery which government creates.

Quality is defined as the best service for your money and those people in those plans have that as their safety net if they cannot afford anything else.
I'm surprised that in the richest country in the world, insurance companies (private or public), are allowed to refuse coverage. This is absolutely ruthless and heartless. Is this the freedom that you propose?

Charly, the reason why many insurance companies deny coverage to a few potential buyers is because they have pre-existing conditions. However, if we got rid of our forms of community rating which drain reserves of the insurance pool and put a mask on the risk associated with clients, then premiums would be based on actual risk. People would also have the incentive to live healthier lives. Secondly, abolishing mandated benefits and mandated guaranteed issue will free up reserves for insurance,

All of the hurdles with mandated benefits that you mention are there probably because your government wanted to protect the insured from the insurance companies.
Look, the bottom line should be, when a person is sick he/she should not be concerned about pre-existing conditions or any other roadblock from insurance companies. He/she should get the treatment required period.

Per capita and by per % of a country's population the U.S. has the shortest waiting lines in the world when it comes to the time to get surgery. Canada has around 40 million people and many Canadians have to wait up to 3 months to get an MRI and so do many people on the EU, but in the U.S. we have 306 million people and don't wait as long. Private sector medicine is more efficient than government run medicine, it's just mor expensive.