Single-payer healthcare is the best, simplest way of providing universal healthcare.

I apologize for not making the cut I have been busy with school, I will most likley loose now because of it but I will try my best. Good luck Aagon Health care in a single-payer system will be rationed by means other than price. This will have inevitable adverse effects, including: 1. Long waits and reduced quality. In Britain, over 800,000 patients are waiting for hospital care. In Canada, the average wait between a general practitioner referral and a specialty consultation has been over 17 weeks. Beyond queuing for care or services, single-payer sysï¿½tems are often characterized by strict drug forï¿½mularies, limited treatment options, and discrimination by age in the provision of care. Price controls, a routine feature of such sysï¿½tems, also result in reduced drug, technology, and medical device research. 2. Funding crises. Because individuals remain insulated from the direct costs of health care, as in many third-party payment systems, health care appears to be "free." As a result, demand expands while government officials devise ways to control costs. The shortest route is by proï¿½viding fewer products and services through explicit and implicit rationing. 3. Beyond favoritism in the provision of care for the politically well-conï¿½nected, single-payer health care systems often restrain costs by limiting surgeries for the eldï¿½erly, restricting dialysis, withholding care from very premature infants, reducing the number of intensive care beds, limiting MRI availability, and restricting access to specialists. 4. Labor strikes and personnel shortages. In 2004, a health worker strike in British Columbia, Canada, resulted in the cancellation of 5,300 surï¿½geries and numerous MRI examinations, CT scans, and lab tests. Canada also has a shortage of physicians, and the recruitment and retention of doctors in Britain has become a chronic problem. 5. Outdated facilities and medical equipment. Advances in medical technology are often seen in terms of their costs rather than their benefits, and investment is slower. For example, an estiï¿½mated 60 percent of radiological equipment in Canada is technically outdated. 6.Politicization and lost liberty. Patient autonï¿½omy is curtailed in favor of the judgment of an elite few, who dictate what health care needs and desires ought to be while imposing social controls over activities deemed undesirable or at odds with an expanding definition of "public health." Government officials would claim a compelling interest in many areas now considï¿½ered personal. Conclusion: Conclusion. The very real problems of Amerï¿½ica's health care system, including the problem of uninsurance, can be addressed through innovaï¿½tive market-based solutions. While critics of the market approach are free to claim that a future health care system based on free and voluntary exchange would have pernicious rather than posï¿½itive effects, the evidence-based approach to health policy finds little to support the promised superiority of national health insurance. In the end, the socialist vision of medicine will achieve Orwellian results: The promise of health care covï¿½erage becomes health rationing, access to univerï¿½sal coverage means delays in access to care, official fairness yields to favoritism by officials, freedom of choice becomes coerced conformity, and demï¿½ocratic deliberation is replaced by bureaucratic decision-making.