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Re: Failure of Single Payer
It's great if you have equipment, but you need staff, and $$ to keep them going. In a single payer system, eventually, as in Canada, you would see things being centralized, and people having to travel farther for simple services.
The doctor I worked for in Canada left shortly after I did for the US... why? Because the government had introduced a cap on the income he could generate, and once doctors reach that "cap", it wouldn't matter what they did, no more income for the rest of the year! So, say by August, he had reached the cap of the amount he would make for the year, the rest of the year, he would be performing his services for free!
So, that is very discouraging to MD specialists, who have fled Canada by the droves to come to the US and other countries, where they could work as hard as they chose, and be paid according to their work.
What do you suppose this has done to the Canadian healthcare? It leads to this... one Cardiology specialist serving an area approximately the size of the state of Maine! A family member recently needed heart surgery. She had to travel 3-4 hours to the large city, where ONE specialist was available to see her, and treat her. It took 4 months for them to decide to do surgery on her, while she was close to death. ONE hospital in the entire province that could do this surgery!
Is THAT what you want?
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