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Originally Posted by Slingin Sammy 33
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Riiiight but the fear mongering is the focus on how if we change from our current system, the sky will fall, there will be no doctors, blah blah blah. Or how if we don't change our system, the bills will be out of control, etc. The point is that there ARE plenty of issues with the current system that need corrected, and there are ways to correct them both via modification of our current sys and via conversion to a new methodology. Everyone is too concerned with bombast to be proactive. There's no reason the gov shouldn't look at all of these issues and work on creating a system from the ground up whereby most of them are eliminated (socialist or not, that's right I went there
). But too many people are getting paid with the status quo, so there's a lot of static out there. Why not revise/subsidize med school? Why not reduce/eliminate malpractice litigation? These things have already been proposed ad nauseam but the truth is that this is a HUGE industry with HUGE lobbying power and they are going to fight any/all reform every step of the way.