the emergency room, prove their economic status, and hope that the right tests will be ordered to catch a health problem.
Though these supposed positives are all untrue. One of the first affects you would notice within the U.S. had we gone from an insurance mandate to a two-tier socialized health care system, as mentioned with Canada, It would create a massive doctor shortage. The United States is already tens of thousands of doctors short of meeting the basic minimums that are required for proper care. Obamacare, a public health care program, has exposed this shortage as some communities have wait times for basic checkups that are 6 months or more. In the UK, where socialized medicine is in place, there are fewer than 3 doctors for every 1,000 people. That creates
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Doctors in the US are not supportive of universal health care because it would change their standard of living. When US specialists are compared to UK specialists, the UK doctors earn half of what the US doctors make. Even current government insurance shows that payments to doctors from Medicare are about 20% lower than private insurance payments. The result could be fewer students entering the field of medicine, which would result in even greater doctor shortages.
Health care would be overused for quite some time. When people do not perceive that they are responsible for the costs of their actions, then they are more likely to use and potentially abuse the systems that are in place. For health care, this would mean more visits to the doctor that would typically be considered unnecessary.
Socialized medicine is seen as a step away from democracy. A majority of Americans favor keeping the health care system as it is today, partially because they see socialism in socialized medicine. Many believe socializing medicine would create a slippery slope where other government services would then be created to interfere with the natural order of a person’s