Right now, the USA health care system serves as the safety valve for the Canadian heatlh care system.
When the Canadians have a shortage of places for premature infants, they can and do send pregnant women to the USA to deliver.
If the USA istitutes a Canadian-style system, will Mexico’s health care system be OUR safety valve when our system begins to develop inevitable shortages of various types of care?
Are those of you who think that socialized medicine is so great aware that in Britain, many hospital patients are treated in mixed-sex wards? The British are always making the elimination of these wards a “top priority” but something always comes up to cause the money to be spent on something else instead. Other than emergency rooms and intensive care wards, I haven’t heard of ANYBODY in the USA being treated in anything other than a private or semi-private room for decades.
Socializing medicine might not make care in the USA immediately worse than it is now, but I’ll bet you that there will be tremendous stagnation.
