Resolved: The US should constitute a Single-Payer Health Care System

Thanks for your response. ~~Defense of my arguments~~C1: Current US government careIf a child even has a very bad problem, they still only get a 55% chance to see a doctor. [1] Yes one of the big reasons they decline is due to the reimbursement rates, but the paperwork too is extensive. [2] Now, all government insurance programs lead to lower reimbursement rates in the US, there is no reason to think totally switching over will help. [3] The extensive paperwork and extremely low rates cause doctors not to accept government health care. [4] Also drug shortages:"Experts attribute the shortage to a combination of increasing demand, struggles to obtain enough active ingredients and tight federal regulations that limit how much of the ingredients can be distributed to manufacturers per year." [5] Tight FEDERAL REGULATIONS, is listed as a reason. And yes, the government gets to price the drugs in the system, [6] if they do it terribly here how would they do it any better if they get more control? I think the logic is poor. Also note US doctors get better pay. [7]C2: Doctor shortageI am really mad, it deleted my arg so I'll be breif.Pay:US doctors get good pay in the US. [8] source: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com...SP reduces their pay. France has a doctor shortage as well. [9]C3: Free Market CuresWhy would it not work? explain. The savings for a SP system are temorary and provide worse care. [10] The desicions are not even left to the people anymore. [10] SP SYSTEMS have higher mortality rates in cancer. [11](being breif... stupid delete my argument...)C4: Rationing Almost all SP systems ration care because cost savings are only temporary. [10] "Canada’s Medicare allocates services primarily by time, forcing patients to wait weeks, or even months, to receive urgent diagnostic screenings and surgeries. A recent study by the free-market Fraser Institute found that the median wait for surgeries in Canada has grown to 18.2 weeks—141 percent longer than in 1993." [12]So it happens in our continent, would it not happen here?"Namely, once health care is nationalized, or mostly nationalized, rationing care is inevitable, and those who have lived the longest will find their care the most restricted. " [13]Sorry for being breif. SP System, his case---> He doesn't justify his well paid and competitive, universal healthcare lowers competition. [14, 15]---> if those 60k go overseas chances they'll come back if they prefer SP if we adopt that, that wold raise costs. ---> it would not help the drug industry. In the US we have better access to HC then SP countries. [16] We have bscreening. [17] And we have more technologies medically and have been better at creating them then otherr SP countries. [18] That argument makes no sense.---> source: http://en.wikipedia.org...Their SP costs for HC are rising!! Heakth coss are 17% of living in switzerland. [20]---> "Not only do fewer people go bankrupt in the U.S. than critics claim, but people in other health care systems also incur high medical costs." [19] Sorry bankrupsies---> The gpverment sets proces and controls the market creating inefficiencies that didn't exist before. [21]---> Tell me how it would increase the amount of trained doctors? If it costs more and is inneficient how is this the case?---> How will it lower costs? It increases taxes a megaload and as I stated 16% of income hasot be spent on care in switzerland. [22]---> Better health, no. "Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States, and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom. Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the U.K. and 457 percent higher in Norway. " [23] "Nine of 10 middle-aged American women (89 percent) have had a mammogram, compared to less than three-fourths of Canadians (72 percent)." [23]"Twice as many American seniors with below-median incomes self-report “excellent” health compared to Canadian seniors (11.7 percent versus 5.8 percent)." [23]"The United States has 34 CT scanners per million Americans, compared to 12 in Canada and eight in Britain. The United States has nearly 27 MRI machines per million compared to about 6 per million in Canada and Britain." [23]Your arguments are false. --->Freedom, or not. SP raises regulations and changin insurance is a terrible proces sthat causes people to bhave to move to different areas. [24] Funding for SP healthcare--> THE majority of europe has higher taxes then us. their tax rate s near 60%. ours it around 35%, 25% tax hike. [25]--> The employers pay 13% payroll tax. [26]--> I just like bullets right now.Healthcare policy--> He just conceded rationing of care by saying he gets people to choose what the people need, not what the people want. Also this contradicts with his freedom argument. http://onforb.es... [1]http://1.usa.gov... [2]http://bit.ly... [3]Cunningham P, May J. "Medicaid patients increasingly concentrated among physicians." Track Rep. 2006 Aug;(16):1Ã¢â‚¬"5. [4]http://bit.ly... [5]http://bit.ly... [6]http://n.pr... [7]http://www.npr.org... [8]http://www.connexionfrance.com... [9]http://www.freemarketcure.com... [10]Concord Working Group, "Cancer survival in five continents: a worldwide population-based study,.S. abe at responsible for theountries, in s chnologies, " Lancet Oncology, Vol. 9 [11]http://www.weeklystandard.com... [12]http://online.wsj.com... [13]http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com... [14] http://www.cato.org... [15]http://www.cato.org... [16]June O'Neill and Dave M. O'Neill, "Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S." [17]Victor R. Fuchs and Harold C. Sox Jr., "Physicians' Views of the Relative Importance of 30 Medical Innovations," Health Affairs, Vol. 20 [18]http://biggovhealth.org... [19]Alice Dembner, “Soaring costs threaten universal coverage in Switzerland,” [20]http://www.cato.org... [21]OECD, “Taxing Wages 2006/2007: Special Feature: Tax Reforms and Tax Burdens,” (2008). [22]http://blog.heritage.org... [23]http://news.heartland.org... [24]http://en.wikipedia.org... [25]http://en.wikipedia.org... [26]