Socialized Medicine Pros and Cons

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Each update on universal healthcare insurance I hear on the talk shows has a political slant. According to certain experts the countries who use socialized medicine have hurt their economies and are forced to ration medical care to senior citizens. According to others they see the advantage or bonus of socialized medicine and all its advantages and see none of the negative aspects of national health care.

I'm in favor of a national medical care system. However, I'm afraid that there are more ways to create a health care system that will be no better than what we have than there are to create a good system. We have to do this right or we are going to be stuck with the negative aspects of Socialized Medicine without all of the positives.

Few people believe that Universal healthcare will not create higher taxes. However, we are paying for our broken system already. If some of those costs go away, we may wind up with more money in our pockets.

Now, an injured man who needs emergency medical care will almost certainly be able to get treatment whether or not he or she has any ability to pay for the physician or hospital charges. We pay for the provided doctoring. The medical professionals has to increase its charges. It charges its insured patients to make up for the ones that don't pay. At the same time it ruins the credit of the patient who can't write a check for the cost of the services.

Another negative aspect that is an obstacle some talk about is the drain on our economy that may be caused by those who lose their ambition because they get qualify for free health care. I suppose that only time will tell, but I think that if we have more healthy people more people will be available to work. There are probably more ambitious people who are unable to work because of poor health care than there are people who would become lazy when better health care is available to them.

The positives of socialized medicine include the lessening of employment discrimination for the older workers. If the burden of the cost if insurance were shifted to the government, older and sicker people may be able to find jobs more often. A small business owner who interviews an older or less healthy applicant, today may focus on how that applicant would raise their group medical insurance premiums and not on the skills and knowledge that person might bring to the job.

Older, more experienced employees will in many cases do a better job than less experienced professional. This can increase the efficiency of a business and mean that the company and our country better because of it.

Potential entrepreneurs will be able to start their own business without leaving their health insurance behind. The fear of losing medical insurance has kept many people shackled to jobs that they have long ago out grown. Universal health care will perhaps allow some great man or woman to invent the next big thing, whatever that may be.

Today a parent may be unable to pay for both the food she or he needs to feed their children and the healthcare that they need. This can mean that this parent dies early leaving youngsters behind. A medical care system with good preventative care that is available to all can keep these parents around to rear their children and better prepare them to be productive citizens.

I think that what we all want is a stronger economy and a better country. Socialized medicine improves our economy by making older, more productive workers more productive. It can also extend the time that some of our youth gets to spend with their parents and have a major impact on our future as a country.

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Alston Balkcom has been an insurance agent for over 20 years. He can help you find Delaware Group Coverage. His recent blog posts include one about socialized medicine and pre-existing conditions.

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